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DeVos to Defend Indefensible Budget That Kills Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
Through 2018, DeVos’ Education Department approved less than 300 borrowers for public service loan forgiveness among nearly 40,000 applicants – an abysmal 99% rejection rate.
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New Poll Shows DeVos Deeply Unpopular, Strong Support for Investigations Into Education Department’s Misconduct
DeVos’ approval rating stands at an abysmal 28 percent.
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DeVos Gets Money’s Worth in SCOTUS School Voucher Case
DeVos has made massive “charitable” donations to right-wing groups willing to smear teachers’ unions and push discredited policies that undermine public education. And her investment just paid major dividends as one of her pet groups helped elevate the anti-public education cause all the way to the Supreme Court.
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More Proof Betsy DeVos Was Wrong To Restore Troubled Accreditor ACICS
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is now under enormous pressure to cut off ACICS’ federal recognition and prevent any more students from taking on mountains of debt based on shoddy accreditation standards.
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DeVos Rebuffed by Congress on Borrower Defense Rollback
In a win for students and taxpayers alike, today the U.S. House passed a key resolution to overturn the Trump-DeVos Education Department’s rule gutting student borrower protections.
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Rated “Mostly True” : DeVos the “most unpopular person in our government”
No level of dissatisfaction from student borrowers will ever convince the Secretary to consider their needs before the bottom line of the for-profit college and loan servicer industries.
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Allied Progress’ Year-in-Review: The Trump Administration Embraces the Shadiest Industries
For predatory lenders, pushy debt collectors, fly-by-night for-profit colleges, and greedy Wall Street banks, 2019 has been a banner year under the Trump administration.
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DeVos On Defensive for Plan to Shortchange Defrauded Student Borrowers
Secretary DeVos is working to keep problematic accreditors in business while allowing anyone off the street to become one.
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Trump on Student Debt Crisis: “We don’t have a plan”
That says it all about what a bottom-barrel priority the student debt crisis has been to the President.
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DeVos on Student Loan Woes: I Won’t Fix It, So You Deal With It
The Secretary thinks she can wipe her hands clean of responsibility and pass the buck to Congress to fix the problems she’s only made worse.