The Veterans Education Project (VEP) has submitted a second formal letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) expressing our support for proposed regulatory changes included in the One Big Beautiful Act. These changes, introduced as part of this Congress’s budget reconciliation process, emphasize student outcomes and institutional accountability over outdated and often counterproductive compliance metrics.
VEP strongly supports the Committee’s effort to implement commonsense, outcomes-based accountability tools that better reflect the real economic value of educational programs. In conjunction with this agnostic outcomes-based framework of accountability, we encourage the HELP Committee to retire or provide waivers for outdated inputs-based regulations, like the 90-10 Rule, that can incentivize institutions to raise tuition prices and turn away Pell grant students.
The proposed framework incentivizes institutions to improve retention and deliver better support to students. This shift directly benefits veterans and other high-need student populations by aligning federal oversight with long-term financial outcomes.
Read VEP’s full letter to the Senate HELP Committee
Read VEP’s Press Release here
