Letter to the 118th Congress
The Protect Students and Taxpayers Coalition writes to the 118th Congress to share the coalition’s higher education priorities for 2023 and beyond. Representing students, consumers, veterans, faculty and staff, civil rights advocates, and researchers, the coalition of...Coalition Letter on Pell Eligibility for Students Who Are Incarcerated, Implementing 90/10 Loophole Regulations, and Regulating Institutional Changes in Ownership
On August 26, 2022, a dozen member organizations from the Protect Students and Taxpayers sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education to express support for expanding Pell Grant eligibility to students who are incarcerated, implementing the proposed 90/10...Over a Dozen Organizations and Over 300 Signers Urge Education Department to Implement a Strong Borrower Defense Rule
On August 12, 2022, over a dozen organizations from the Protect Students and Taxpayers coalition and over 300 petition signers urged the U.S. Department of Education to implement a strong Borrower Defense rule to better protect students and taxpayers from fraud and...Coalition Letter Urging ED to Ensure Ban on Incentive Compensation is Being Followed by Colleges and OPMs
A coalition letter to Secretary Cardona urging the Department of Education to ensure that the ban on incentive compensation is being followed as it relates to colleges’ contracts with companies known as online program managers (OPMs). Read the...Gainful Employment: Using Data to Examine Potential Effects of a High School Earnings Threshold
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...Student Voices
@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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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
@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
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“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
RELEASE: #BeyondStudentDebt Report Reveals Student Loan Borrowers Struggling to Meet Basic Needs
https://studentdebtcrisis.org/release-beyond-student-debt/
“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/
Debt-free futures! @Dreamdefenders #DefendStudents #CancelStudentDebt #ProtectBorrowers
People's Rally for Student Debt Cancellation #CancelStudentDebt https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAVojvVMGb
Yes, @SenWarren, we're fired up! #CancelStudentDebt #ProtectBorrowers #DefendStudents
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