Goodbye to Betsy DeVos, who survived by accomplishing almost nothing
When Betsy DeVos took the job as the nation’s chief educator, she probably never imagined that a pandemic would strike, requiring her to exert actual leadership in extremely difficult circumstances. It’s a role for which she is utterly unqualified. From the time of...Editorial: Why is it so hard for Betsy DeVos to provide debt relief and loan forgiveness to students?
Among those who have had to wait too long for debt relief are more than 200,000 students who say they were tricked into taking valueless courses at for-profit college chains such as the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian Colleges. DeVos’ own staff...Editorial: Protect Veterans From Fraud
The New York Times Congress invited predatory for-profit colleges to defraud military veterans when it wrote a loophole into the rules governing federal education aid. The loophole, added to the Higher Education Act in 1998, encouraged the schools to take the...Betsy DeVos sides with predatory for-profit colleges over America’s students
The future of the nation’s economy and the ability of its citizens to earn a decent living increasingly depend on having an educated population, with more people getting at least some college education after high school. Despite that, the Trump administration is...
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/