The Department of Education under Betsy DeVos and the Trump administration is seemingly doing everything it can to eliminate consumer protections from schools of higher education that cause consumers to take out loans to attend. Secretary DeVos has been pushing for rollbacks on the Borrower Defense to Repayment program that gave students a way to …
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Education today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes to rescind Gainful Employment (GE) regulations in order to provide useful, transparent higher education data to students and treat all institutions of higher education fairly. “Students deserve useful and relevant data when making important decisions about their education post-high school,” …
When you ask the average person if paying $90,000 for a two-year degree in an entry level field like web design makes any sense they’d hopefully question the logic of that. But when you add a salesperson in the mix promising all sorts of magical things, it’s not surprising an average consumer might fall for …
The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Education was left recently politely scratching their head after reviewing proposed Congressional legislation to roll back protections for students from problematic debt. Congress is currently salivating to make changes while reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (HEA) and the OIG reviewed the proposals to “promote the efficient …
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos seems to be waging a terrible war against student loan debtors who have been defrauded by their schools in order to extract federal student loan money. Since the Trump administration took over the Department of Education has not actually delivered relief to a single Borrower Defense to Repayment claim. Yet …
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If I was ever to get into an academic research argument on the role of government, this would be the time. Frankly I’m just getting pissed off by the apparent disregard for student loan debtors by the Trump Department of Education. And before you react that this is a Trump reaction, it’s not. This is …
Attorney General Josh Stein yesterday sued the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos for refusing to enforce the Gainful Employment Rule, a federal regulation designed to protect students from predatory for-profit schools. “Students are working hard to create a better future for themselves,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “For-profit colleges must shoot straight …
Question: Dear Steve, I owe a small fortune in student debt. I thought it was all “federal” loans, but apparently I took out a lot of “private” Sallie Mae loans as well. That I did not realize at the time. Finally, after years of being out of the workforce and a professional student, I now …
There is a big difference between adjusting rules and regulations to help student loan debtors buried in federal government loans find any hope of a better future, and what is happening now at the Department of Education. It certainly seems that at every turn and opportunity U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is gutting and …