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Education  |  Jeremy Pittari  • 
March 23, 2026

IHL adopts financial literacy policy, discusses effort to create new funding model for state universities

Lawmakers are debating financial literacy requirements at Mississippi colleges and universities as the session winds down.
Education  |  Collin Binkley, Associated Press  • 
March 20, 2026

Student loans to go to Treasury Department as Trump continues to dismantle Education Department

The Treasury Department will take over management of student loans whose borrowers are in default. Those loans add up to about $180 billion, or 11% of the government’s $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio.