The following article by Casey Quinlan was posted on the ThinkProgress website November 14, 2017:
The department isn’t being transparent with students who attended for-profit colleges.
Students who were defrauded by for-profit colleges are still waiting on the U.S. Department of Education to forgive their federal student loans — and Senate Democrats are pressuring Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to act.
Since the Trump administration came into office, no borrower defense claims have been approved. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has also been critical of a slow-moving Obama-era education department, and Richard Durbin (D-IL) released a report Tuesday on the backlog of debt relief claims. The students affected, many of whom are low-income, have been the victims of schools misrepresenting job placement rates, predatory loans, and have been manipulated by sophisticated marketing machines. Continue reading “Under DeVos, Education Department continues to shut out disadvantaged college students”