California Jumps in With Sweeping Regulatory, Statutory Proposals Affecting...
Kate Lee Carey and Caitlyn Shelby California has introduced a legislative package of seven new bills that would substantially impact institutions operating in California under the approval of or...
View ArticleCalifornia VA Agency Extends Comment Period
Kate Lee Carey and Caitlyn Shelby The CSAAVE has extended the comment period on the proposed rulemaking until March 16.
View ArticleCalifornia Jumps in with Sweeping Statutory Proposals – Part II (Registered...
Kate Lee Carey and Caitlyn Shelby Part two in our series on the seven new bills a group of six California Assembly members have introduced focuses on registered online institutions and the California...
View ArticleCalifornia Proposals Would Rewrite Rules for Many Nonprofit Institutions
Kate Lee Carey and Caitlyn Shelby Part III in our series on the proposed bills in the California Assembly recaps two bills (AB1341 and AB1342) that would significantly affect both in-state and...
View ArticleCalifornia Presses Forward with Bill to Ban OPM Tuition Share Arrangements
Nancy Anderson, Kate Lee Carey, Mike Goldstein, Vince Sampson and Paul Thompson The California Assembly Higher Education Committee unanimously voted to advance a bill, AB 1345, designed to exclude OPMs...
View ArticleDepartment Announces California Residents at Out-of-State Public and...
Nancy Anderson, Mike Goldstein and Paul Thompson The Department of Education announced yesterday that California residents enrolled in distance education programs at out-of-state public and nonprofit...
View ArticleCalifornia Legislature Takes Summer Break With Key Higher Education Bills...
Kate Lee Carey and Caitlyn Shelby California higher education bills remain unresolved during summer break. The seven original bills passed the Assembly, but have undergone amendments in the Senate....
View ArticleED Reinstates Title IV Eligibility to California Students
Nancy Anderson, Mike Goldstein and Paul Thompson The Department of Education has withdrawn its directive to deny federal financial aid eligibility to California students enrolled in online courses...
View ArticleCalifornia Senate Appropriations Committee Sends Three Postsecondary Bills...
Kate Lee Carey and Caitlyn Shelby The California Senate Appropriations Committee returned from recess on August 12 and resumed discussion of the six remaining higher education bills.
View ArticleGov. Newsom Signs Three California Private Postsecondary Education Bills
As we detailed in our most recent post on this topic, out of an original package of seven, three private higher education bills made it through the California legislative process and went to the...
View ArticleCalifornia Assembly Recommends Eliminating For-Profit Institutions from Cal...
In its FY2018 budget recommendation, the California Assembly has proposed that students attending any for-profit postsecondary schools in the state lose assistance under the Cal Grant program. The...
View ArticleReminder: July 1 Deadline for Out-of-State Schools to Register to Enroll...
The California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) has issued emergency regulations and published the new application for private, out-of-state institutions to register to enroll...
View ArticleCalifornia BPPE Announces Changes to the Student Tuition Recovery Fund
The California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE or Bureau) recently published amended regulations governing the Student Tuition Recovery Fund (STRF), effective as of August 10, 2017....
View ArticleAnother Disclosure Requirement for California Higher Education Institutions...
All higher education institutions in California, with the sole exception of the California Community College system, will – beginning with the 2018-19 academic year – have to provide their students an...
View ArticleGolden State GDPR: What the Edtech Industry Should Know About CA’s New...
Matt Johnson authored an article in EdSurge about California’s new privacy rules and how it applies to the edtech industry. On June 27, 2018, the California Legislature, in a flurry of last-minute...
View Article2020 San Francisco Edtech Conference Is a Wrap
Cooley recently completed the 3rd annual San Francisco CooleyED conference and pitch night with two days of unique panels, discussions and networking opportunities building out connections in the...
View ArticleCalifornia Legislature Passes Bill Impacting Nonprofit Higher Education...
Despite the pandemic and the resulting abbreviated legislative docket in 2020, the California Assembly managed to resurrect one of its stalled bills from 2019 and successfully move it through both...
View ArticleCalifornia Higher Education Bill AB70 Signed into Law by Governor Newsom (and...
Following up on our blog post of September 1, Governor Newsom has signed AB70 into law. This bill impacts how nonprofit and public institutions will be recognized under the California Private...
View ArticleCalifornia BPPE Implements New Statutory Provisions
The California Legislature passed a number of bills during the 2021 session impacting the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) and institutions subject to the BPPE’s oversight. Senate...
View ArticleCalifornia Legislature Updates Private Postsecondary Education Act … Again
A number of amendments to the governing statute of the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) took effect January 1, 2023, impacting in-state and out-of-state institutions. The...
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