I suppose it was inevitable that Betsy DeVos’s ED Department would side with for-profit colleges that have defrauded students. After all, she invested in such colleges, and Trump notoriously opened Trump University, which was ordered to repay students $25 million for its fraudulent courses.
DEBT FORGIVENESS SLOWDOWN: Student loan recipients defrauded by their for-profit colleges might have to wait longer to see that debt forgiven by the Education Department. Since President Donald Trump took office, the department appears to have drastically slowed the approval of debt relief to tens of thousands of student borrowers seeking to have their federal loans canceled on the grounds their colleges defrauded them. That’s according to several current and former government officials.
– A department spokesman said in an email to POLITICO that the department “has not stopped approving borrower defensed repayments,” but declined to say how many claims the department had approved since Jan. 20. The spokesman said that Education Department career staff members are leading “a full review of the Borrower Defense to Repayment program and that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos “is committed to protecting students who have been defrauded by schools.”
– Consumer advocates and some state attorneys general are raising alarm bells, however. “The Trump administration is turning its back on struggling borrowers,” said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat who worked closely with the Obama administration on loan forgiveness for defrauded students.
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What a shame. If the US Department of Education refuses to act and protect students, who should anyone in the public consider them credible on anything they tell students?
Why would a young person accept advice or information from people who aren’t acting in their interest?
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Good question, Chiara.
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Young people get a bewildering amount of advice and 9/10ths of it is bad.
So can we put the US Department of Education in the “questionable” category now?
If they don’t care about their credibility why should I?
I hope whatever they got from these lenders was worth selling 18 year old first generation college students down the river.
Once they sell their credibility they won’t get it back.
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MA Senator who opposed charter expansion in her state hugs charter school teacher from her state. OK.
LOL. Try it from the public school perspective. I watch ed reform politicians attack, defund and weaken public schools on a daily basis.
Then I get the pleasure of them coming around 6 weeks before their next election proclaiming their love for public schools.
My own state representative works as hard as he can to bash my son’s school when he’s in Columbus performing for his donors but he sings a very different tune when he’s asking public school parents for votes. Luckily for him most people in his district don’t pay enough attention to his antics at the statehouse to see what a fraud he is.
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