Secretary DeVos has not denied a single alternate earnings appeal filed by a for-profit institution of higher education. Nevertheless, she has refused to disclose any information about the bases for...
On May 31, 2018, NSLDN submitted another a FOIA request regarding ACICS. On December 12, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education terminated its recognition of ACICS as a nationally recognized...
On May 10, 2018, NSLDN, on behalf of its client, The Century Foundation, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education seeking the release of Final Program Review Determinations,...
The lawsuit calls for the Department of Education to release the 'Part II' submission by the accreditor ACICS. Read the lawsuit here.
On April 16, 2018, NSLDN filed a lawsuit on behalf of The Century Foundation (TCF) in the Southern District of New York against the U.S. Department of Education. The lawsuit...
On April 27, 2018, NSLDN submitted a FOIA request to the U.S. Department of Education seeking communications between the Department and ACICS from April 3, 2018 to April 26, 2018....
Victory for Transparency, Accountability Comes As ACICS Withdraws Motion To Block Release of Report in Ongoing Legal Dispute with NSLDN, TCF (Washington, D.C.) – In direct response to a lawsuit...
On April 23, 2018, NSLDN filed a lawsuit on behalf of The Century Foundation against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking the draft staff report on for-profit college accreditor ACICS's...
NEW YORK, N.Y. (April 23, 2018) – Earlier today, less than two hours after a federal lawsuit was filed against it, the U.S. Department of Education made an abrupt decision...
On April 17, 2018, NSLDN filed a lawsuit on behalf of The Century Foundation against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking documents used to determine the amounts of partial relief...
In direct response to a lawsuit filed by NSLDN on behalf of The Century Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education released approximately 20,000 pages of documents regarding two higher education...
On April 18, 2018, NSLDN submitted a FOIA request to the U.S. Department of Education seeking numerous memoranda referenced in the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) December 8, 2017 report...
On December 12, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education terminated recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (“ACICS”) after finding that the accreditor was pervasively noncompliant with...
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Maryland Senate unanimously (46-0) passed legislation to protect students at for-profit institutions of higher education. This legislation also received overwhelming support from the House of...
WASHINGTON, DC – Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued a notice today interpreting the Higher Education Act as preventing the enforcement of state consumer protection laws over the servicers...