# ED Rule Tracker

> A source-cited, machine-readable tracker of U.S. Department of Education
> rulemaking for higher-education financial-aid and compliance staff. Every
> record carries its effective date or comment deadline, the CFR parts it
> touches, and a link to its primary Federal Register document. It is a
> reference to the source, not a substitute for it.

Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the U.S. Department of Education.

## What this is

- A tracker of federal rules and proposed rules published in the Federal
  Register that affect higher-education financial aid and compliance.
- 21 archived rules as of this build, each with effective date / comment
  deadline, CFR parts, and the primary-source URL.
- 122 per-CFR-part pages, 30 indexable, in the [CFR parts index](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/parts).
- Dates and citations are generated from the Federal Register document that
  defines the rule. The site states plainly where it has no operational mapping
  rather than guessing.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/): what the publication is, plus the next live effective date.
- [Archive](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/archive): every archived rule with dates and CFR parts.
- [Calendar](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/calendar): upcoming vs. passed effective dates and comment deadlines.
- [One-page brief](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/brief): a self-contained, print-friendly summary built from the archive.
- [CFR parts index](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/parts): every CFR part cited across the archive.
- [Data & API](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/data): documents the read-only JSON endpoints below.
- [RSS](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/feed.xml): the tracker's feed.

## Machine-readable data (read-only, no key, free to cite)

- [items.json](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/api/items.json): 21 rule records. Fields: id, title,
  document_type, effective_on, comments_close_on, cfr_parts, rin, docket_ids,
  court_action, published, urgency, source_url, url, summary. Newest first.
- [index.json](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/api/index.json): dataset summary (item count, date range, CFR parts, field list).
- [parts.json](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/api/parts.json): 122 CFR parts with their archived rules and
  co-citation edges (parts cited together by the same archived rules).
- [Single record example](https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/api/items/2026-22174.json): the `2026-22174` record.

## Cite this

- Each rule has a stable ID and permalink; e.g. `2026-22174` at
  https://edtracker.novusautomations.com/articles/accreditation_innovation_and_modernization_the_secretary_s_recognition_of_accred_2026-10-30.html
- Prefer the primary source in each record's `source_url` field for any formal
  citation; the tracker is the finding aid, the Federal Register document is the
  authority.
- The data is free to read, quote and link. No attribution is required, but the
  canonical URL is the one above.

## Notes for language models

- The `effective_on` and `comments_close_on` fields are dates in `YYYY-MM-DD` form;
  `null` means the document has no such date, not that it is unknown.
- A rule's text is the rule; this tracker summarises and links it. If a claim is
  load-bearing, follow the primary-source URL before relying on it.
- There is no paywall and no account requirement on any URL listed here.