3.0.0 472 2020-02-10T16:52:59Z 2020-02-10T16:52:59Z House H HR 2007-01-16 110 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing hsed13 Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcomittee Referred to 2007-05-09T20:23:38Z Referred to 2007-01-16T17:33:00Z 2007-05-09 hsed13 Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcomittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness. Committee 2007-01-16 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2007-01-16 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2007-01-16 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress M000508 Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25] HOWARD MCKEON R CA P. 25 N K000361 Rep. Keller, Ric [R-FL-8] RIC KELLER R FL 8 2007-01-16 True C000243 Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large] MICHAEL CASTLE R DE N. 0 2007-01-16 True B000072 Rep. Baker, Richard H. [R-LA-6] RICHARD BAKER R LA H. 6 2007-01-16 True B001232 Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13] JUDY BIGGERT R IL 13 2007-01-18 False F000453 Rep. Fallin, Mary [R-OK-5] Mary Fallin R OK 5 2007-01-18 False D000597 Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1] JO ANN DAVIS R VA 1 2007-01-18 False K000363 Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2] John Kline R MN 2 2007-03-13 False Education Administrative procedure College costs College teachers Colleges Commerce Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Consumer price indexes Cost control Cost effectiveness Department of Education Distance education Dropouts Economic impact statements Economics and Public Finance Education of the disadvantaged Educational accountability Educational innovations Educational statistics Educational surveys Electronic government information Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Federally-guaranteed loans Government Operations and Politics Government lending Government paperwork Government publicity Higher education Internet Law Loan defaults Performance measurement Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Student aid Student enrollment Student loan funds Teaching materials Textbooks Web sites Education 00 2007-01-16 Introduced in House 2007-02-08T16:31:20Z College Affordability and Transparency Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Commissioner of Education Statistics, in redesigning the College Opportunity On-Line (COOL) website, to identify and include the data of greatest importance to prospective and enrolled students, and their families.

Requires the Secretary of Education to publish, on such website, additional college affordability information comparing the change in each school's student costs with the change in the consumer price index (CPI) over the most recent three-year period.

Requires a school whose prices increase at more than twice the percentage change in the CPI over such time period to: (1) report an explanation to the Secretary; and (2) establish a quality-efficiency task force to review the school's operations, if the school's price increase is in the top 5% of such schools. Places schools on affordability alert status if their prices continue to exceed the CPI by such amount for two additional years. Requires publication of the explanatory reports, task force analyses, and affordability alerts on the COOL website.

Changes the student aid recipient survey to require that it be conducted at least once every four, rather than every three, years and include information on the effect students' costs and debt have on student school and career choices.

Authorizes the Secretary to select up to 100 schools to participate in a College Affordability Demonstration Project allowing increased innovation in the delivery of higher education and student financial aid to test the ability of innovations such as accelerated degree programs, distance education, and school collaborations with other schools and organizations, to reduce costs for students and schools.

]]> College Affordability and Transparency Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced College Affordability and Transparency Act of 2007 Display Title College Affordability and Transparency Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to address the issues of college affordability and transparency. Introduced in House 2007-01-16T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr472ih/xml/BILLS-110hr472ih.xml 2007-05-09 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.