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 116th Congress Setting Out Accountability Priorities
- Understanding the 90/10 Rule
- What to Know About the Borrower Defense to Repayment Rule
- 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
Latest Updates
- 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 - AFT v. DeVos
January 22, 2020