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)
The letter asks the Department of Education to take immediate steps to stop federal student aid from flowing to colleges owned by the Center for Excellence in Higher Education as a result of a ruling in a case brought by the Colorado Attorney General. The letter asks...Coalition Letter in Support of Repealing the 2019 Borrower Defense Rule
In September, the Department of Education released a new version of the “Borrower Defense to Repayment” rule that would make it virtually impossible for students cheated by their college to cancel their student loans. Senator Dick Durbin and Representative Susie Lee...Letter from 42 Organizations Urging Senator Alexander to Protect Consumers and Taxpayers
42 organizations urge Senator Lamar Alexander to include robust consumer protection of students and taxpayers in any reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Read the letterCoalition Letter to Senators Hassan and Durbin in Support of the PROTECT Students Act
Coalition letter from 56 organizations representing and advocating for students, families, taxpayers, veterans and service members, faculty and staff, civil rights and consumers, expressing strong support for the PROTECT Students Act. Read the letter
400,000+ student borrowers with disabilities could soon be required to resume making loan payments they don’t owe, and we’re calling on @SecCardona and @usedgov to do something about it. Enough is enough. #DefendStudents
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/groups-push-easier-student-loan-relief-disabled-77171016
We’re teaming up with @justiceinaging and @DECLASI petitioning @usedgov to automate discharges for student borrowers with disabilities. 400,000+ people haven’t received the relief they are entitled to. #DefendStudents
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/groups-push-easier-student-loan-relief-disabled-77171016
We’re petitioning @usedgov to automate the debt relief process for 400,000+ student borrowers with disabilities. Read our 100 Day Docket proposal to do just that here #DefendStudents https://www.defendstudents.org/news/100-day-docket-making-relief-automatic-for-borrowers-with-total-and-permanent-disabilities
“I would like the individuals who are responsible for this, who have names and faces … to be dealt with in the way in which people who look like me are dealt with in the court of law under far less offenses.” #defendstudents
https://www.arnoldventures.org/stories/they-took-my-choice-away-victims-of-for-profit-colleges-find-an-ally
Proud to join @GIBillRights & 20+ groups in this letter urging @SecCardona to act to provide relief to students who were defrauded by predatory #4profit institutions and failed by the Department under then-Secretary Betsy DeVos. #DefendStudents #BorrowerDefense
We were pleased to help lead a letter from over 20 organizations to @usedgov about the urgent need to address the borrower defense program. Read the letter here: https://vetsedsuccess.org/letter-from-23-organizations-to-secretary-of-education-cardona-about-the-borrower-defense-program/