Grand Canyon University sued the U.S. Department of Education Tuesday in an attempt to force the federal agency to recognize the Christian school’s nonprofit status, as the Internal Revenue Service and state of Arizona have.
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California’s lawsuit claims a new Trump administration rule will make it easier for “predatory” for-profit colleges to receive federal funds while offering low-quality educational programs.
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Student borrowers who claim they were defrauded by for-profit schools told a federal judge Thursday they don’t trust Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ department to fairly decide if they qualify for debt relief under the terms of a proposed settlement.
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Challenging a new rule that makes it “virtually impossible” for defrauded student borrowers to obtain debt relief, 22 states and the District of Columbia sued Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in federal court Wednesday.
Read moreA federal class action claims Geeta B. Brown, of California, ran the fraudulent, for-profit InterCoast Colleges and InterCoast Career Institute as a sham licensed practical nursing program in Maine, preying particularly upon minority and immigrant students “to generate unlawful and inequitable profits through the manipulation of federally guaranteed student loan programs.”
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Students defrauded by for-profit colleges will finally get the U.S. Department of Education to make decisions on their requests for debt relief. But it could take up to 18 months.
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A Justice Department lawyer urged a federal judge Thursday to strike down a class action over long delays in processing student debt relief applications as moot, even as 171,000 borrowers remain “in limbo” with no decision from the U.S. Education Department.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos disregarded harm to student borrowers when she repealed an Obama-era rule designed to protect students from taking on debt for worthless education programs, critics claim in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreDefrauded former Corinthian College students asked a federal judge to order more sanctions for the U.S. Department of Education and its secretary Betsy DeVos, after the department it revealed it has collected – and continues to collect – over $20 million from the students after being ordered to stop.
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U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos took another crack at revamping a student loan forgiveness program Tuesday, affecting thousands of students who took out federal loans to attend for-profit colleges that solicited attendance with fraudulent claims.
Read moreU.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos forced more than 45,000 defrauded students to repay loans in violation of a court order – far more than the 16,000 originally estimated, the department revealed in a court filing Tuesday.
Read moreThe Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld orders requiring two for-profit colleges to refund tuition money to hundreds of former students defrauded by false assurances about a criminal justice degree.
Read moreA federal judge certified a class who claim Education Secretary Betsy DeVos “arbitrarily and capriciously stonewalled (and continues to stonewall) the relief process with its ‘blanket refusal’ to process their borrower claims” against allegedly fraudulent profit-seeking colleges.
Read moreA federal class action claims Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos illegally continues to demand student loan payments from more than 7,000 students of the former Everest Institute, run by Corinthian Colleges, which was shut down for fraud; Massachusetts filed a similar complaint in the same court.
Read moreThe U.S. Education Department’s refusal to process borrower defense claims has left more than 160,000 students “in limbo,” damaged their credit and permanently delayed their accumulation of wealth, student borrowers claim in a class action filed Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that the for-profit Capella University misrepresented that its program could be completed in three years, though the average length required is six years, with corresponding increases in tuition payments.
Read moreU.S. Representatives Susan Davis and Mike Levin – chairs of House subcommittees on education and labor and Veterans’ Affairs – hosted a joint hearing Wednesday on how to protect student veterans from for-profit institutions in light of enforcement and oversight rollbacks by the Trump administration.
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