Share
Betsy DeVos Overruled Education Dept to Halt Student Loan Forgiveness
Betsy DeVos will go down in history as the worst Education Secretary to ever hold that office.
These borrowers — more than 200,000 of them — say some for-profit colleges lied to them about their job prospects and the transferability of credits. They argue they were defrauded and that the Education Department should erase their federal student loan debt under a rule called "borrower defense."
....internal Education Department memos obtained by NPR show that career staff in the department's Borrower Defense Unit came down firmly on the side of defrauded borrowers.
Until now, these internal department memos have been hidden from public view. Lawmakers had previously requested access to them, but DeVos and her department refused to hand them over.
Then DeVos stepped in because she is literally a part owner of for-profit schools and they are major donors of her. SHE IS WORKING FOR THEM. It's that simple. THIS IS CORRUPTION in plain view.
The education secretary has the authority to override the recommendations of department staff, and DeVos has done just that. On Tuesday [12/10/19], the department unveiled a new plan to calculate how much defrauded students benefited from their educations and thus how much, if any, debt relief they deserve. Under this new model, most borrowers are unlikely to qualify for full relief.
DeVos' new plan is the department's second attempt at resolving the more than 200,000 outstanding borrower defense claims. The first attempt was blocked in May 2018 by Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim.... ordered DeVos to stop collecting on the debts of certain Corinthian students.
In October, Kim fined DeVos $100,000 for contempt of court after it was revealed the department had not stopped collections.
DeVos is the real life villain character from movies. Of course she would stop any help to students who were defrauded by for profit colleges.
When DeVos had to sign off on thousands of borrower defense claims that had already been approved by the previous administration, she added three words below her signature: "with extreme displeasure."
What a heinous b-tch.