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Olympic College Students Feel Delay in GI Bill Payments

Student veterans across the country have been left in the lurch as the Department of Veterans Affairs works to sift through a backlog of GI Bill payments, including a number of students at Olympic College who are still waiting for their benefits payout a month after the start of the new school year. Sean Delaire, a full-time student studying […]

Record Number of Female Combat Vets Running for Congress

WASHINGTON — A record number of female combat veterans are on the ballot in congressional races this fall, a test of whether women can repeat the success American men have long enjoyed of by turning military experience into political careers. The nine candidates have the potential to more than double the number of female combat […]

Blind Veterans

As Veterans Day approaches, we can expect to see news reports featuring wounded warriors in rehabilitation, learning how to use their new prosthetic limbs. These scenes are heartrending and hopeful. But not often shared are reports about veterans who don’t see — the 1 million veterans who have suffered visual impairment and the 130,000 who […]

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For-Profit Berkeley College Faces Civil Charges

WHITE PLAINS – A for-profit college with a downtown city campus is facing civil charges for predatory student recruitment and financial aid practices alleged in a lawsuit filed by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs this month. The department accused the school of luring students — in particular low-income and first-generation college students — to enroll with promises […]

Veterans Compete in Annual Detroit Free Press/Chemical Bank Marathon

DETROIT – Every year veterans and wounded warriors from around the country come to Detroit to take part in the annual Detroit Free Press/Chemical Bank Marathon. Most use handcycles because they have lost limbs while fighting in combat. Some participate in wheelchairs and others are vision impaired. Many are being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington and are a […]

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Not Many Troops are Opting into New Blended Retirement System

With less than three months to go before the year-end deadline, only one in six service members who are eligible to make the choice to opt in to the new military retirement system have done so, falling far short of prior expectations and raising questions about why the response has been so low. About 1.6 […]

Alumni of Shuttered Military Academy in Missouri Acquire School Memorabilia, Open Museum

Despite the drizzle and the chill in the air, Lexington’s Main Street was packed at the 12th Street intersection on Oct. 6. Hundreds of Wentworth Military Academy alumni sat in reverent silence during the dedication of the WMA Museum, which had been in the works for a year. Behind the crowd stood a contingent of […]

Companies Pushing Security Products Court Education Department

SECURITY COMPANIES COURT EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: A top Education Department appointee spoke by phone in recent months with companies that push products like electronic locks and technology designed to better detect concealed weapons. — The calls come as the Trump administration weighs recommendations for bolstering school safety and as the security industry has aggressively marketed its […]

Education Department Sued in Armed Teachers’ Case

A coalition of advocacy and teacher groups sued the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday morning for information related to its decision to allow schools to purchase firearms using federal funds. The American Federation of Teachers, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence say the Education Department is […]

GI Bill Benefits Aren’t Taxable

You may wonder if you have to report your GI Bill benefits as income on your taxes, well the good news is that the answer is NO. GI Bill benefits are NOT taxable and should NOT be reported on your tax return as income. You will not receive a W-2 from the VA. Read more

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VBA may have lauded its decision to disband the Office of Economic Opportunity, formerly led by Deputy Under Secretary Curtis Coy, until it created a new backlog of the Forever GI Bill veterans’ claims approaching well over 100,000 veterans. In October, reports originally surfaced that around 100,000 veterans did not timely receive their monthly subsistence payment […]

Air Force Academy Grad, Vet Named Teacher or the Year

With science being the lead dancer in the marriage of technology, engineering and math through the popular STEM movement, the discipline has never been as cool as now. But to Dan Ganoza, science has always held the top-dog spot in education. “You can pretty much apply science to every aspect of your life,” said Ganoza, […]

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