Latest News
Showing the Latest Betsy DeVos Results
-
NYT Report Shows DeVos Aide Helped Keep Failing For-Profit Colleges Alive and Students Paid the Price When They Collapsed
DeVos’ top lieutenant, Diane Auer Jones, kept a fly-by-night company on life support just long enough to cheat thousands of students out of their tuition money with no degree to show for it.
-
Betsy DeVos and Her “For-Profit College Crew” Give Industry Another Leg Up
The Education Department published a new 28-page college accreditor guide that will give for-profit colleges a head start under the guise of “streamlining” the process.
-
DeVos Still Dragging Feet on Student Loan Disability Discharge Issue
See June 17th MarketWatch story ‘Student-loan borrowers with disabilities will be reimbursed after their Social Security checks were needlessly garnished’. Reaction from Allied Progress spokesman Jeremy Funk: “Where is the sense of urgency from Secretary DeVos? DeVos is dragging her feet to fix a system so broken that disabled student borrowers who qualify for federal…
-
DeVos Lieutenant Heads Back Through Revolving Door to Lobby On Behalf of For-Profit Colleges and Loan Servicers
Washington D.C. (June 13th, 2019) — In response to reports that James Manning, acting Under Secretary of the DeVos Education Department, is departing for a lobbying gig at Penn Hill Group, which as of 2019, has been registered to lobby for National Council of Higher Education, “the nation’s oldest and largest higher education finance trade…
-
Despite 53,000+ Complaints, Mulvaney Sides with DeVos and Neuters Student Loan Office
Mulvaney sides with Education Secretary DeVos in protecting powerful student loan processors over borrowers.
-
Allied Progress Launches Investigation into Ed Department’s Decision to Cut Ties with Consumer Bureau
Trump Administration brings assault on consumer protections to student loan borrowers.
-
Following Surprise Resignation of Key Student Loan Official, Group Expands Investigation of Education Dept.
Allied Progress expands investigation following surprise resignation of key federal student loan official.
-
Group Will Investigate Education Secretary’s Conflicts in Proposed Student Loan Industry Giveaway
DeVos’s billionaire family could benefit from end of student loan repayment programs, more defaults.