The new FAFSA formula undermines the longtime goal of creating a better, fairer federal student aid process… Read More
STATEMENT: DFI Releases Statement on Biden Administration’s Final Title IX Rule
President Biden’s new Title IX rule is a textbook example of how extremists in the administration have hijacked the law to force radical… Read More
STATEMENT: DFI Statement on President Biden’s Latest Student Loan Cancellation Plan
President Biden does not have the legal authority he claims to carry out mass loan… Read More
Real Clear Education | Op-Ed: Biden Administration’s Rule Change Threatens Funding for the Most Disadvantaged Students
Growing up in a Latino household meant that Saturdays were reserved for household chores. Every week, my mother would wake me up from my… Read More
To label the administration’s proposed changes as highly controversial would be an… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Statement on ‘Respecting the First Amendment on Campus Act’
This bill pushes back against the harsh illiberalism that has swept across too many of our colleges and universities in recent… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Sues Biden Administration for Refusing to Produce Records Related to Potential Ethics Issues Arising Out of Student Loan Litigation
DFI filed a lawsuit today for access to records that probe the relationship between the U.S. Department of Education and a public interest… Read More
Public discussion of student loan forgiveness has waned since the Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s $430 billion mass… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: New DFI Report Exposes How the Nation’s Largest Teacher Union Has Abused its Congressional Charter
New DFI Report Exposes How the Nation’s Largest Teacher Union Has Abused its Congressional… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Joins Fight for Education Freedom, Parents’ Rights in South Carolina Supreme Court Case
DFI joined with two former South Carolina State Superintendents of Education—Mick Zais and Barbara Nielsen—to fight for education… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Supports State of Idaho in its Fight to Protect Public Schools’ Legal Right to Maintain Sex Segregated Locker Rooms, Bathrooms
DFI supports the state of Idaho in its fight to protect public schools' legal right to maintain sex segregated locker rooms and… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Demands Civil Rights Investigation into an Illinois Public School Segregating Students, Classes by Race
DFI filed a civil rights complaint today with the U.S. Department of Education demanding it investigate Evanston Township High… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Releases Statement on House Vote to Stop Biden’s Backdoor Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme
WASHINGTON—Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) President and Co-Founder Bob Eitel released the following statement… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Civil Rights and Education Policy Experts Calls on Biden Administration to Combat Anti-Semitism in Education, Conduct Emergency Audit to Ensure Federal Grants Are Not Being Used to Promote Anti-Semitic Views
The coalition requests the administration to conduct an emergency audit of international education and foreign language studies grants… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Releases Statement on Bipartisan Passage of DETERRENT Act
The DETERRENT Act brings much-needed transparency and accountability to the billions of dollars flowing into American higher education… Read More
Two Montgomery County citizens are suing their local school board over its refusal to allow them into a meeting at which the board… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Argues to the Supreme Court that Title IX Does Not Prohibit Public Schools From Maintaining Separate Bathrooms Based on the Biological Sex of Students
When Congress passed Title IX to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, it did so with the clear understanding that sex is… Read More
STATEMENT: The Defense of Freedom Institute Releases Statement on the DETERRENT Act
America's foreign adversaries are working overtime to buy their way into universities using lucrative gifts and contracts. Countries like… Read More
Fox News | Op-Ed: Widespread student support of Hamas attacks exposes ‘moral bankruptcy’ of US higher education
As Hamas carried out unspeakable horror against Israeli civilians, out came a litany of student groups on campuses across the country… Read More
PRESS RELEASE: DFI Leads Coalition to Block Biden Administration and Accreditors from Illegal Regulation of Private Companies Providing Online Higher Education Services
A coalition of former U.S. Department of Education (ED) officials is leading the charge to stop a large higher education accrediting… Read More
National Review | Op-Ed: Biden’s Zombie Student-Loan Bailout Continues to Stalk Taxpayers
You thought the Biden administration was done with going around Congress to reward key constituencies? Think… Read More
Washington Examiner | Op-Ed: The long march of the campus Title IX coordinators
The administration’s Title IX rulemaking is a master class in how the Left leverages centralized regulatory power to embed… Read More