{"id":90,"date":"2020-03-12T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=90"},"modified":"2020-09-01T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:12:42","slug":"u-s-dept-of-education-issues-covid-19-guidance-to-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/12\/u-s-dept-of-education-issues-covid-19-guidance-to-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Dept. of Education Issues COVID-19 Guidance to Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that institutions of higher education consider postponing or canceling upcoming study abroad or foreign exchange programs. However, this advice has raised pressing questions about how this would affect Title IV, Higher Education Act (HEA) federal financial aid and a student\u2019s ability to finish the term if a program is interrupted or canceled. In response, on March 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) offered\u00a0<a title=\"Guidance for interruptions of study related to Coronavirus (COVID-19)\" href=\"https:\/\/ifap.ed.gov\/electronic-announcements\/030520Guidance4interruptionsrelated2CoronavirusCOVID19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guidance<\/a>\u00a0permitting temporary flexibility and clarifying how higher education institutions can continue to comply with Title IV regulations for students whose activities are impacted by COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/us_department_education_issues_covid19_guidance_schools_0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that institutions of higher education consider postponing or canceling upcoming study abroad or foreign exchange programs. However, this advice has raised pressing questions about how this would affect Title IV, Higher Education Act (HEA) federal financial aid and a student\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/12\/u-s-dept-of-education-issues-covid-19-guidance-to-schools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Dept. of Education Issues COVID-19 Guidance to Schools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[646,41,45,42,44,43,40],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cdc","tag-education","tag-hea","tag-higher-education","tag-higher-education-act","tag-title-iv","tag-u-s-dept-of-education"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}