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Florida For-Profit Colleges Sued for Selling Predatory Product and Targeting Black Students | Press Release
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Project on Predatory Student Lending
Student Borrower Class Forces Department of Education to Process All Pending Borrower Defense Claims | Press Release
Press Releases
Project on Predatory Student Lending
Statement on the COVID-19 Economic Stimulus Package and Student Loan Relief | Press Release
Statement on Legislative Plan to Cancel Fraudulent Corinthian and ITT Student Debt | Press Releases
Senators Durbin, Brown, and Warren, and Congressmembers Takano and Jayapal introduced a legislative plan to completely cancel the loans of borrowers who have long been deemed eligible for borrower defense discharge.
My Student Loan Truth: Shaun’s Art Institute Story | Blog
Secretary DeVos’s new Borrower Defense rules will gut important protections for students cheated by for-profit colleges. The rules would impose near-impossible standards for defrauded students seeking their rights to loan cancellation, a process that the Department has already made incredibly difficult for students like Shaun Joyce.
My Student Loan Truth: Jared’s South University Story | Blog
When the Dream Center chain collapsed, thousands of students were left stranded and scammed of education. Jared Russell was one of them.
DeVos and Education Dept. could face new sanctions for violating a court order | The Washington Post
A federal judge is weighing higher fines for the Education Department after the federal agency disclosed that it pursued scores of additional borrowers for debt collection — violating a court order.
Corinthian Colleges Students Want Education Dept. to Face Additional Sanctions for Violating a Court Order | Washington Post
Former Corinthian Colleges students are asking a federal judge to impose higher fines against the Education Department after the agency disclosed it pursued scores of additional borrowers for debt collection in violation of a court order.
My Student Loan Truth: Andrea’s Story | Blog
When the Department of Education seized Andrea’s tax refunds to pay for bogus student loan debt from Corinthian Colleges, there were devastating effects for her entire family.
Betsy DeVos: Income to Decide Education Loan Fraud Forgiveness | Ask the Truth
Overburdened by education loan is a common narrative associated with almost every other student in the US, but what seems tough, is about to get tougher. As per the new plan unveiled by the US Education Department, students who are cheated by their colleges will receive full loan forgiveness, only if they end up earning far less than their peers.
Betsy DeVos Forced Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges to Repay Loans | Truthout
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos overruled career staff at the department’s Borrower Defense Unit, deciding to force student borrowers to partially pay back their loans even though they had been defrauded by for-profit colleges, according to documents obtained by NPR.
Betsy DeVos Ignored her Own Staff, Forced Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges to Pay | Salon
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos overruled career staff at the department’s Borrower Defense Unit, deciding to force student borrowers to partially pay back their loans even though they had been defrauded by for-profit colleges, according to documents obtained by NPR.
Why Defrauded Students Still Can’t Get Debt Relief | The Takeaway
Tens of thousands of students across the country have been defrauded by for-profit colleges. On Wednesday, NPR reported on internal documents that show how career staffers at the Department of Education believed that students in these situations should have their debts forgiven, but that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos overruled them.