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For-Profit Colleges, Long Troubled, See Surge Amid Pandemic | New York Times
In March, as colleges and universities shuttered campuses under a nationwide lockdown, Strayer University updated its website with a simple message: “Great things can happen at home.” Capella University, owned by the same company as Strayer, has run ads promoting its flexibility in “uncertain times” and promising would-be transfer students that they can earn a bachelor’s degree in as little as a year.
'Just Not Right': Defrauded For-Profit College Students Suffer Rejected Relief Claims | Yahoo Finance
The Education Department (ED) is rejecting borrower defense claims of defrauded victims of predatory for-profit colleges, according to letters and emails received by three applicants who told their stories to Yahoo Finance. Three former students of the now-defunct ITT Tech told Yahoo Finance that their applications to have their student loan debt discharged under a “borrower defense” rule from the 1990s had been rejected.
We Deserve More Than 10% Justice - Sammia’s Student Loan Truth | Blog
Decades after being scammed by the for-profit school, Sammia Pratt is still fighting to get full loan cancellation. Her borrower defense application was recently granted, but the Department of Education discharged only 10 percent of her loan. She represents thousands of others in her situation as the lead plaintiff in Pratt v. DeVos.
Scammed Borrowers Sue Betsy DeVos, Alleging She Illegally Limited Student-Loan Cancellation | Market Watch
Students who’ve been scammed by their schools are being illegally cheated again — this time out of the loan cancellation that they’re entitled to, a new lawsuit alleges. A group of student-loan borrowers filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday accusing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her department of illegally limiting the amount of relief student-loan borrowers who were misled by their schools receive.
Student Loan Borrowers Sue DeVos To Overturn Loan Forgiveness Rule | Forbes
Student loan borrowers have filed a new lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The lawsuit concerns the Borrower Defense to Repayment program. This loan forgiveness program was originally enacted by the Obama administration to provide student debt relief to students who were misled, defrauded, or otherwise harmed by predatory colleges and universities.
Education Secretary DeVos Sued Over Rule Related to For-Profit College Fraud | Yahoo Finance
The Department of Education (ED) changed its rules on how students defrauded by for-profit colleges seek debt relief, leading to lawsuits and a political fight to return the rule to its Obama-era form and a veto from President Trump in support of the change. Now consumer advocates are suing over related, lesser known Trump administration student debt rule change in another attempt to obtain more relief for defrauded students.
Betsy DeVos To Be Sued Over Partial Debt Forgiveness Policy | Forbes
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is being sued again. This time for her new partial debt forgiveness policy under the “borrower defense to repayment” rule. DeVos announced the new policy last year, providing for a way for borrowers who were defrauded by their school to get only a portion of their loans cancelled.
Students Challenge Education Department’s Latest Scheme to Deny Student-Loan Relief | Press Release
A Trump administration rule that denies loan relief to many students cheated by their schools is deeply flawed and should be overturned, Public Citizen and the Project on Predatory Student Lending told a court today. The groups represent student borrowers in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s new “partial relief” rule.
Consumer Groups to Challenge ‘Partial Relief’ Rule | Inside Higher Ed
Consumer groups are expected to file a federal lawsuit today challenging U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's so-called partial relief rule, in which more students get only a part of their student debt forgiven if they have been defrauded by their institutions.
New Lawsuit Over DeVos' Partial Loan Forgiveness Policy | Politico
Consumer groups this morning are filing a new legal challenge to DeVos’ policy, announced last year, that will cancel only part of the loan debt owed by federal student loan borrowers who are defrauded by their college.