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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...

Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Support the Levin Amendment to the America COMPETES Act

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | May 3, 2022 | Publications

Coalition letter from a broad group of organizations working on behalf of students, veterans, faculty and staff, civil rights advocates, researchers, and others concerned about career education programs urging Congress to support the Levin Amendment to the America...

Coalition letter to US Department of Education on Actions in Response to Zovio, Inc.’s Fraud. 

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Apr 5, 2022 | Borrower Defense, Publications

Coalition letter urging the U.S. Department of Education to promptly address issues raised by the recent California state court decision finding pervasive fraudulent abuse of federal financial aid programs by Zovio, Inc. the current and former operator of Ashford...

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...

Protect Students and Taxpayers Coalition Letter on NACIQI Reviews and Processes

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Feb 2, 2022 | Career Education Accountability, Publications

Coalition letter to the U.S. Department of Education and the members of the National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) provides recommendations to improve the review process for accreditors. Read the letter

Letter to the Department of Education on the Higher Learning Commission (HLC)

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Jan 21, 2022 | Career Education Accountability, Publications

Letter from Veterans Education Success to the Department of Education expressing concern about the Higher Learning Commission’s (HLC) continued recognition as a reliable authority under Section 496 of the HEA. Read the letter
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NicholasKentEdNicholas Kent@NicholasKentEd·
26 Mar

While spring cleaning my home office, Mike says, “Why are you keeping all those #negreg binders from rulemakings that happened years ago?!” I explain because @usedgov regulates on the same damn topics every few years so they’re helpful. #groundhogsday

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4slj_4slj@4slj_·
23 Mar

@PaulaDee63 Enrollment’s down 8 % . This isn’t going the way colleges hoped when they sat down for #negreg

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RussPoulinRussell Poulin@RussPoulin·
23 Mar

The Department of Education Announces Public Hearings on Higher Education Rulemaking

@usedgov will hold public hearings Apr 11-13. https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-announces-public-hearings-higher-education-rulemaking #highered #negreg #edpollicy #onlinelerning #thirdpartyservicers #distanceeducation

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4slj_4slj@4slj_·
22 Mar

@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

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#defendstudents

NACACWonkNACAC Wonk@NACACWonk·
24 Mar

Education Department Announces Use of Secret Shoppers to Protect Student Against Unscrupulous Institutions http://ow.ly/FnVi50NreHL via @usedgov An important step in the effort to #defendstudents against predatory institutions https://bit.ly/3yxBkEi

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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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