Protect Students & Taxpayers offers a collection of resources produced by organizations working on behalf of students, veterans, faculty and staff, civil rights advocates, researchers, and others concerned about career education programs that leave students with debts they cannot afford. Predatory schools leave students with unfair and unaffordable student loan debt and leave taxpayers exposed when students cannot repay those debts. Many predatory schools are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding and target veterans in particular for their GI Bill funds.
We support common-sense accountability to ensure that all students are able to access an education that improves their lives, students who are cheated by colleges are able to fairly cancel student loan debt, and that taxpayer dollars are not wasted on programs that offer little value to students but leave them with debt they cannot afford to repay.
Key Coalition Materials
- Protect Students and Taxpayers Coalition Two-pager
- Selection of documents showing widespread deceptive and misleading recruiting by colleges
- “Shattered” the Faces of the For-Profit College Crisis
- Gainful Employment: A Civil Rights Perspective
- Support for Coalition Priorities from State Attorney Generals
- Coalition Letter to the 117th Congress Setting Out Our Shared Accountability Priorities
- Understanding the 90/10 Rule
- What to Know About Borrower Defense to Repayment
- What to Know About the Gainful Employment
- What Programs Passed and Failed the Gainful Employment Rule in Your State?
- Study on Earnings and Debt of For-Profit Students in Certificate Programs
- Impact of Gainful Employment Rule on Students Attending the Career Programs by Demographic
- Voters Overwhelmingly Support Guardrails on For-Profit Colleges, Finds TCF and Data for Progress Poll
- Coalition Letter to the Department of Education Seeking Transparency
- Gainful Employment: State-by-State Data
Latest Updates
- 22 Groups Urge Secretary Cardona to Immediately Address Borrower Defense Claims | April 13, 2021
- 37 Groups Urge Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Minority Leader McConnell to Support Closing the 90/10 Loophole to Protect Students Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic | March 4, 2021
- Coalition letter to the Department of Education seeking transparency | March 2, 2021
- No More Corinthians: Why Students Need a Strong Borrower Defense Rule | February 3, 2021
- Why Students Need a Strong Gainful Employment Rule | February 3, 2021
- 19 Organizations Write to Secretary DeVos regarding findings of fraud against College America and other schools owned by Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE) | October 13, 2020
- Letter to the Department of Education Regarding Potential Violations of the Ban on Incentive Compensation | October 1, 2020
- FAQ: Borrower Defense Application and Process
- Memo on Senate Vote on Student Loan Borrower Defense Rules | March 11, 2020
- Guide to Extended Closed School Loan Relief for Dream Center Students | February 17, 2020
