by Beth Holmes | Aug 29, 2022 | News, Student Issues
Defrauded borrowers are to be forgiven almost $4 billion in debt by the Department of Education, in the continuing fallout of ITT Technical Institute. Until 2016, ITT Educational Services was one of the largest for-profit educational operator in the U.S. It shut its...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 19, 2021 | News, Student Issues
Black education is a priority in the White House once again, as President Joe Biden signs an executive order to help address the obstacles faced particularly by black students in the United States. The executive order, which was signed October 19, 2021, creates two...
by Beth Holmes | May 14, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
On Tuesday, May 11, the United States Department of Education released a package of federal aid for colleges and universities that amounts to just over $36 billion. The money, part of the latest pandemic relief package, will go to shore up the over 5000 colleges and...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | News, Student Issues
On the afternoon of April 13, 2021, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren held a hearing on the topic of debt cancellation for student loans. “America is facing a student loan time bomb that, when it explodes, could throw millions of families over a financial cliff,”...
