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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 02:51 AM Jan 2018

DeVos May Make It Harder for Students to Prove They Were Defrauded

Source: MSN/USA Today

The Department of Education appears poised to pitch new rules that student loan advocacy groups say would make it significantly more difficult for students defrauded by for-profit colleges to prove their plight and qualify for federal student loan debt relief.

Proposal drafts obtained by Politico and BuzzFeed News show how Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and department officials are hoping to revise an Obama-era regulation known as “borrower defense,” which outlines how student loan borrowers who have been defrauded can apply to have their loans forgiven.

Toward the end of the Obama administration, Education Department officials streamlined the regulation in the wake of investigations that found for-profit schools were misleading students about the value and cost of their degrees, their potential future earnings and their expected debt burdens.

The draft rules from DeVos and her team would raise the bar by requiring students to prove that a school intentionally deceived them. Students would have to meet a “clear and convincing” standard of evidence – a more rigorous measure than the “preponderance of evidence” standard set by the Obama administration.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/devos-may-make-it-harder-for-students-to-prove-they-were-defrauded/ar-BBHSbe9



You have to love the populism of the Trump administration. Of course, it turns out that populism just means giving folks a scapegoat based on race, gender or religiion.
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DeVos May Make It Harder for Students to Prove They Were Defrauded (Original Post) TomCADem Jan 2018 OP
DeVoid not fooled Jan 2018 #1
If you're middle-class or lower class and it isn't obvious by this point that the GOP... C Moon Jan 2018 #2
People are going to have to bring up their children to consider all corporations applegrove Jan 2018 #3
If the gop starts fighting fraud..why have the gop dembotoz Jan 2018 #4

C Moon

(12,188 posts)
2. If you're middle-class or lower class and it isn't obvious by this point that the GOP...
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:21 AM
Jan 2018

has been lying to you to get your vote (or should I say support—because they can cheat to get votes), then you are NEVER going to learn. Either that, or you, as a complete idiot, love serving a master.

applegrove

(118,011 posts)
3. People are going to have to bring up their children to consider all corporations
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:48 AM
Jan 2018

to be predators out to sucker them in.

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