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Gainful Employment: Using Data to Examine Potential Effects of a High School Earnings Threshold

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Jun 8, 2022 | Gainful Employment, Publications

Issued in 2014, the Education Department implemented the Gainful Employment (GE) Rule to protect students from low-quality postsecondary programs that often left them with unaffordable student debts and non-transferrable credits. Unfortunately, the last administration...

What Will Happen If We Reinstate the Gainful Employment Rule?

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Feb 10, 2022 | Gainful Employment, Publications

By: Michael Itzkowitz, Senior Fellow, Higher Education, Third Way, Shelbe Klebs, Education Policy Advisor, Third Way Originally posted via Third Way on February 10, 2022 In January, the US Department of Education (Department) began a negotiated rulemaking process to...

Accountability That Works: Restoring Gainful Employment and Strengthening Higher Education Accountability Measures

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Dec 7, 2021 | Gainful Employment, Publications

The Gainful Employment (GE) Rule was intended to protect students from low-quality programs that often left them with a mountain of debt and credits of little to no value. Issued in 2014, the GE Rule worked to improve institutional quality while lowering costs and...

Searching for Common Ground: Week One of Negotiated Rulemaking

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Oct 14, 2021 | Borrower Defense, Military / Veterans, Negotiated Rulemaking, Publications

By: Kyle Southern, TICAS and Sarah Sattelmeyer, New America Last Monday, negotiators for this fall’s Affordability and Student Loans Committee began their work on the first of two anticipated negotiated rulemakings (“neg reg”), a process through...

Infographic – What Is The 90/10 Loophole?

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Sep 30, 2020 | 90-10, Publications

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#NegReg

4slj_4slj@4slj_·
11h

@JStein_WaPo I would like to see him work as hard personally to either #CancelAllStudentDebt or push 4 restoration of the bankruptcy protections he was instrumental n having removed.They need some common sense. #negreg isn’t that.Lets all the wrong ppl n2 the process who don’t want it to end

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Arnold_VenturesArnold Ventures@Arnold_Ventures·
1 Mar

Tonight at 6 p.m.! Get the story on #OPMs, #GainfulEmployment, #IncomeDrivenRepayment, #NegReg, #Accreditation, and more in #HigherEd.

See details below 👇

Third Way Education@ThirdWayEDU

Are you joining us tonight for #WineWithWonks?
We can't wait to see you!

Check out our wonk lineup 🔥
@DrJChand
@MichelleDimino
Jared Bass @CAPHigherEd
@HigherEdEquity
@sellensatt
Jessica Taketa @Arnold_Ventures
@SatraFierce
@PrestonCooper93
@mamie_voight
@Catbrown66

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econroy_1Eddy Conroy@econroy_1·
22 Feb

The @usedgov can also make accreditation regulations more robust during #NegReg this year and along with #NACIQI, hold accreditors accountable during their recognition reviews for creating complaint processes that are effective.

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Arnold_VenturesArnold Ventures@Arnold_Ventures·
16 Feb

According to @EdNCES, students at for-profit schools are disproportionately Black and female. Our work to strengthen the #BorrowerDefense Rule helps Black students who have been defrauded by predatory schools like @WaldenU. Find out how 👇 #NegReg (2/)
https://www.arnoldventures.org/stories/a-letter-to-the-education-department-on-the-borrower-defense-rule

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Arnold_VenturesArnold Ventures@Arnold_Ventures·
13 Feb

@NCSARA_News, created to ease interstate regulations for online schools, needs to do more to #ProtectStudents, say #HigherEd advocates including @Arnold_Ventures and grantees @TICAS, @TCFdotorg, @EdDebtJustice, @StudentLegalNet, and @GIBillRights. #NegReg
http://bit.ly/3K84WR4

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#defendstudents

NCLC4consumersNCLC@NCLC4consumers·
16 Mar

“The findings of this study are deeply alarming," said @nataliaabrams @DebtCrisisOrg. “We call on policymakers to take every step necessary to #ProtectBorrowers, including extending the payment pause and canceling debt.” #CancelStudentDebt #DefendStudents

Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC)@DebtCrisisOrg

RELEASE: #BeyondStudentDebt Report Reveals Student Loan Borrowers Struggling to Meet Basic Needs

https://studentdebtcrisis.org/release-beyond-student-debt/

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NACACWonkNACAC Wonk@NACACWonk·
3 Mar

How Can the Education Department Build a List of Low-Value College Programs? http://ow.ly/vfpG50N5S3q via @HigherEdDive @NACAC, along with student and consumer organizations, believes that we have to #defendstudents from predatory institutions https://bit.ly/3yxBkEi

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NCLC4consumersNCLC@NCLC4consumers·
28 Feb

“Default is a financial disaster for student loan borrowers...The Court should reject efforts to interfere with this critical relief; relief that Congress authorized and @SecCardona deemed necessary.” @KyraTaylor2022 #DefendStudents 2/2 https://www.nclc.org/defending-student-loan-cancellation/

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NCLC4consumersNCLC@NCLC4consumers·
28 Feb

Debt-free futures! @Dreamdefenders #DefendStudents #CancelStudentDebt #ProtectBorrowers

Student Borrower Protection Center@theSBPC

People's Rally for Student Debt Cancellation #CancelStudentDebt https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAVojvVMGb

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NCLC4consumersNCLC@NCLC4consumers·
28 Feb

Yes, @SenWarren, we're fired up! #CancelStudentDebt #ProtectBorrowers #DefendStudents

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley@RepPressley

HAPPENING NOW: I’m outside the Supreme Court with @theSBPC, advocates & borrowers to make it plain:

@POTUS' authority to #CancelStudentDebt is clear, and the Court must uphold the law.

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAVojvVMGb

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