Tens of thousands of former students who say they were swindled by for-profit colleges are being left in limbo as the Trump administration delays action on requests for loan forgiveness, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Read moreTrying to keep afloat the new debt-relief system tailored to defrauded college students, 19 states slapped Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with a federal complaint Thursday.
Read moreWithout admitting any wrongdoing, DeVry University reached a $455,000 settlement with Massachusetts on charges that the for-profit school made misleading claims about the salaries and employment prospects of its graduates.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Education was justified in using reported income of graduates as a measure of whether beauty school students qualified for federal financial aid, but made it too arbitrarily difficult for the schools to challenge its determinations, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreWeeks ahead of a regulatory rollout geared at helping students saddled with predatory student loans, a group representing private vocational schools in California has brought a federal complaint contenting the rules as an existential threat.
Read moreStudents claim in court that profit-seeking Laureate Education deliberately allowed the Santa Fe University of Art and Design to fail, stranding them in the middle of the academic year.
Read moreA defunct profit-seeking college chain and its owner must pay $22 million for defrauding the federal government and submitting false information to get federal aid for unqualified students, federal prosecutors said. The owner also has been sentenced to prison.
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Four women claim in a federal class action that the for-profit college Intercoast Career Institute misrepresented the accreditation status of its nursing school in Kittery, Maine.
Read moreA group no longer recognized by the Department of Education after accrediting for-profit schools claims in a federal complaint that political pressure is to blame.
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