Facing lawsuit, DeVos erases student loans for 1,500
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday said she will forgive certain student loans for more than 1,500 borrowers who attended a pair of for-profit colleges that shut down last year.
Are new accreditation rules for online education streamlined or ripe for abuse?
The Trump administration calls its final rules on accreditation and state approval of online providers a rightsizing of bureaucracy that protects students. Consumer advocates and Democrats see an unraveling of federal oversight.
For-profit college company agrees to erase $500 million in student debt
State attorneys general called the agreement a victory for students, saying it will provide debt relief to more than 179,000 borrowers across the country.
Why these veterans regret their for-profit college degrees — and debt
A new documentary illuminates how veterans have been particularly vulnerable to abuses by the for-profit college industry.
The Education Department is recommending restoring a controversial college accrediting agency, giving it a year to resolve remaining concerns.
DeVos' proposal represents the Education Department's second planned rollback of a major Obama-era rule in a matter of weeks.
Students who were defrauded by the for-profit Corinthian Colleges may not get their loans forgiven entirely, the Education Department announced Wednesday, in a reversal of the Obama administration policy of wiping out the debt.
The report comes as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rewrites rules that had been put in place by the Obama administration to protect students who said they were defrauded by their for-profit colleges.
The Trump administration has held up the implementation of Obama-era rules that would have allowed student borrowers to have their debt erased if they had been victims of fraud by for-profit schools. Now 18 states and the District of Columbia…
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