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Following the lead of Trump University, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is trying to protect for-profit colleges that defraud students.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos seems to be operating under the bizarre, inverse premise that for-profit colleges need government protection from students. To that end, she has quietly dismantled the agency’s ongoing investigation into the shady practices of some of those companies.
The New York Times reports that DeVos has “effectively killed investigations” into widespread fraud and abuse at the schools. She has also “marginalized, reassigned or instructed [members of the special probe team] to focus on other matters.”
Last year, DeVos announced she was delaying Obama-era protections for students defrauded by for-profit colleges,
That regulation, which was supposed to take effect July 2017, would have allowed tens of thousands of students to have their loans forgiven if the for-profit schools they attended had deceived them about their education and career prospects.
DeVos put a freeze on the rule, and sought to delay its implementation until 2019. Rather than allowing defrauded students to quickly recover lost funds, DeVos and her team are slow-walking the process in court.
Eighteen Democratic attorneys general sued DeVos over the delay.
HERE we go again!
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos seems to be operating under the bizarre, inverse premise that for-profit colleges need government protection from students. To that end, she has quietly dismantled the agency’s ongoing investigation into the shady practices of some of those companies.
The New York Times reports that DeVos has “effectively killed investigations” into widespread fraud and abuse at the schools. She has also “marginalized, reassigned or instructed [members of the special probe team] to focus on other matters.”
Last year, DeVos announced she was delaying Obama-era protections for students defrauded by for-profit colleges,
That regulation, which was supposed to take effect July 2017, would have allowed tens of thousands of students to have their loans forgiven if the for-profit schools they attended had deceived them about their education and career prospects.
DeVos put a freeze on the rule, and sought to delay its implementation until 2019. Rather than allowing defrauded students to quickly recover lost funds, DeVos and her team are slow-walking the process in court.
Eighteen Democratic attorneys general sued DeVos over the delay.
HERE we go again!
