by Beth Holmes | Mar 6, 2023 | News, Student Issues
Student loan forgiveness is, as for the past several years, a political firestorm and a point of national division. President Joe Biden’s administration has a plan to ease or erase the student debt of up to 43 million people, approximately one in eight...
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 | Jul 25, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
The Department of Education should not exist, according to former secretary of education Betsy DeVos at a conservative group event. Betsy DeVos, daughter of billionaire Edgar Prince whose brother is the founder of notorious private military Blackwater, was the U.S....
by Beth Holmes | Apr 25, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues
Student borrowers are getting help, as the U.S. Department of Education cancels federally-held debt for 40,000 and offers help for over 3.5 million more. “Student loans were never meant to be a life sentence, but it’s certainly felt that way for borrowers locked...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 22, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Major changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program are finally here, and they’re bigger than previously estimated. Under the previous administration, the Department of Education had the PSLF program, but it was made so restrictive that an...
