Working to advance students' rights to educational opportunity and to ensure that higher education provides a launching point for economic mobility.

July 13

Private equity companies have skirted responsibility for millions of $ in liabilities from for profit colleges as taxpayers are left holding the bag. More in @axios from @danprimack: https://t.co/ErCK7A1zQ2

July 09

ED should not be thinking about lifting the payment pause without: 1. fixing its broken wage garnishment system 2. moving faster to help defrauded students; and 3. ensuring that thousands of borrowers with disabilities aren’t placed back in collections. https://t.co/0x1uKTm16g

July 09

But it’s time to end this piecemeal approach and move swiftly to prove relief to thousands of students who have claims that are still sitting at the Department and waiting.

July 09

Some former Court Reporting Inst students finally got relief today as well. Although it was years after the State of Washington took action against the company and we successfully took @usedgov to court. https://t.co/8aOaZyQYrV

July 09

We have partnered with @SenatorDurbin to call on @usedgov to finally use its own enforcement actions to provide relief to defrauded students. Finally, a small first step here with the Marinello Schools of Beauty. https://t.co/f3KmqWLXK9 https://t.co/g2rI7ud6o9

July 09

But @usedgov has the authority to bring accountability to programs reported on by @melissakorn and address these inequities. Read more in our @BrookingsInst report: https://t.co/GQY4rRd1SH

July 09

Disparities in higher education have had disproportionate, negative, and long-lasting effects on Black and Latinx communities. https://t.co/scoek1AqdE

July 08

@melissakorn @anfuller And as @usedgov continues the long & winding road towards new #higherEd regulations - it's a good time to remember that there are some untapped statutory authorities that could address some of these very problems. #negreg https://t.co/1ZqK6MeG4f

July 08

Busy day for #HigherEd news. today. But a must read story from @melissakorn & @anfuller on "high price, low return" master's degrees. https://t.co/HvilxWmnA4

July 08

The preemption issue was an integral piece of our 100 Day Docket. Today would be a good day for @SecCardona and @RichCordray to repeal the erroneous legal interpretation. https://t.co/gXlvo8n1QD

July 08

@usedgov Yet the official policy of @usedgov is to slam courthouse doors closed on borrowers. This policy is wrong, not persuasive, and misstates the law. Just see what the 7th Circuit said in our Nelson case, overturning the very decision that the Department relied on: https://t.co/41QMaVuTnG

July 08

This is right. As part of our Preemption Project, we convinced 2 different federal appeals courts that @usedgov got it wrong. Courthouse doors must remain open to student loan borrowers and state AGs looking for enforce consumer protection laws. https://t.co/zbMBUmCoVo