Cory Turner
Cory Turner reports and edits for the ½ûÂþÌìÌà Ed team. He's helped lead several of the team's signature reporting projects, including "" (2015), the groundbreaking "" series (2016), "" (2017), and the ½ûÂþÌìÌà with Sesame Workshop (2019). His year-long investigation with ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's Chris Arnold, "" (2018), led the U.S. Department of Education to change the rules of a troubled federal grant program that had unfairly hurt thousands of teachers.
Before coming to ½ûÂþÌìÌà Ed, Cory stuck his head inside the and spent five years as Senior Editor of All Things Considered. His life at ½ûÂþÌìÌà began in 2004 with a two-week assignment booking for The Tavis Smiley Show.
In 2000, Cory earned a master's in screenwriting from the University of Southern California and spent several years reading gas meters for the So. Cal. Gas Company. He was only bitten by one dog, a Lhasa Apso, and wrote a you've never seen.
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Republicans want to use the federal tax code to create a national school voucher even in states where voters have fought such efforts. -
A Republican overhaul would reduce borrowers' repayments options from several plans to just two. -
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers. -
The Republican proposal would eliminate grad PLUS loans, set strict limits on parent PLUS loans and create a system in which colleges would be on the hook if their students don't repay their loans. -
On Thursday, three federal judges in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., said Trump's anti-DEI efforts were on shaky legal ground. -
The program, Charting My Path for Future Success, aimed to help teens with disabilities transition from high school to the real world. It abruptly ended when DOGE terminated its federal contract. -
½ûÂþÌìÌà has spent the past few weeks catching up with student loan experts and asking the Trump administration for clarity on some of borrowers' biggest questions. -
The federal student loan system is a mess right now, as the courts consider what's legal and what's not. Meanwhile, the office that oversees the student loan program has had its staff cut by half.
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The president said federal student loans would move to the Small Business Administration, and hinted that the Department of Health and Human Services would take over special education oversight. -
Trump plans to sign the order at a ceremony alongside the Republican governors of Texas, Indiana, Florida and Ohio.
