by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Mar 30, 2021 | Military / Veterans
Under Betsy DeVos, the Education Department sold out to predatory for-profit colleges. It’s welcome news that Washington is taking steps to protect students.Read the editorial
by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Dec 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Jan 2, 2020 | Borrower Defense
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...
by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Dec 31, 2019 | Military / Veterans
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...
by | Mar 11, 2019 | Career Education Accountability
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...