by Supporting Education | Apr 12, 2021 | News, Student Issues
In December 2018, Education Corporation of America abruptly closed all of its 70-odd affiliated campuses, leaving almost 20,000 full-time students in the cold. The closure happened immediately after the for-profit program lost its Department of Education...
by Supporting Education | Jul 20, 2020 | News
The fight has been going on since 2015, when Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a suit against the Department of Education to cease collection on the student loans paid out to Everest Institute on behalf of 7,200 students, in light of the Institute’s...
by Supporting Education | Oct 11, 2019 | News
In 1995, the Department of Education started the Borrower Defense to Repayment program. It was built to allow students deceived by dishonest academic institutions to be forgiven their student loans. In 2016, the Obama administration finalized rules for the program,...
by Sarah Green | Oct 3, 2016 | News, Student Issues
For-profit trade schools are predicated on getting people to pay, up front, for a short program that will get them a well-paying job. Like any other for-profit school, however, the reality is less than the promise. Students who attend these schools accumulate large...
