Betsy DeVos Is Being Sued By 17 States Over For-Profit College Rules
Molly Hensley-Clancy at BuzzFeed
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/17-states-and-dc-are-suing-betsy-devos-over-for-profit?utm_term=.xlxywRQEoV#.jb53gvpw7x
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A group of 18 Democratic attorneys general is suing the Trump administration over its oversight of for-profit colleges, saying that the Education Department's refusal to enforce a regulation punishing predatory career programs "leaves students vulnerable to exploitation and fraud."
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has made a rollback of President Obama's higher education policy a signature piece of her agenda, has begun to dismantle an Obama-era rule called "gainful employment," which cuts off federal financial aid funding to career college programs that saddle students with heavy debt and low salaries.
At the for-profit Art Institutes of Phoenix, for example, students in the fashion design program, which failed gainful employment metrics, took in less than $25,000 a year, but had to pay $6,200 toward their loans — more than 25% of their discretionary income. The rules would have required the program to inform graduates of their poor outcomes, and would eventually have prohibited students from taking out loans to attend.
Earlier this year, DeVos said she would delay enforcement of gainful employment — allowing schools to dodge the rule's requirement, for example, that they tell students their programs were failing the rules. Eventually, she said, she would create a new regulation that would erase Obama's rule altogether.
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