Student Defense: National Student Legal Defense Network

June 13

The U.S. Department of Education has proof that more than half a million borrowers with disabilities are legally entitled to a loan discharge but still haven't received it. https://t.co/3awZJN6vtH cc: @aarthiswami @RichCordray @SecCardona @usedgov

June 12

18 organizations are calling on @usedgov to take action. Thank you @DECLASI @consumeraction @hi_Hildreth @HERAdvocates @NEAToday @EdDebtJustice @PublicCounsel @theSBPC @DebtCrisisOrg @studentvets @GIBillRights @TICAS_org for fighting for student borrowers with disabilities.

June 11

"It is truly a travesty that @usedgov knows of hundreds of thousands of borrowers with disabilities who are entitled to have their federal student loans cancelled and yet it has failed...to provide borrowers with this vital relief" - @YuPersis https://t.co/Y6JKphFouD

June 11

BREAKING: @usedgov withholding debt discharges for more nearly 518,000 student borrowers with disabilities entitled to relief. https://t.co/gfoNz0aPmk

June 10

It's past time for @usedgov to use evidence and findings from its own cases "to provide immediate, automatic debt relief to borrowers who have waited all too long for justice." - @AlexanderElson https://t.co/f3KmqWumSB

June 10

Thousands of harmed students at schools where @usedgov brought its own enforcement actions are still waiting for relief. A huge opportunity for @RichCordray! https://t.co/ujrAzPEm3r

June 03

For profit college accreditor ACICS became a rubber stamp for some of the nation’s most predatory schools. This critical move to terminate their federal recognition will protect thousands of students. https://t.co/YIPhTVl7UC

June 02

Accreditors are supposed to act as trusted overseers of colleges and universities, but ACICS chose to be a rubber stamp for many of America’s most predatory for-profit colleges. By terminating ACICS’s recognition, @usedgov is taking an important step to protect students. https://t.co/yJOqIKOuPG

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Sen. Tom Harkin & Aaron Ament Push for Relief for Borrowers with Disabilities

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The U.S. Department of Education has proof that more than half a million borrowers with disabilities are legally entitled to a loan discharge but still haven't received it. https://t.co/3awZJN6vtH cc: @aarthiswami @RichCordray @SecCardona @usedgov

18 organizations are calling on @usedgov to take action. Thank you @DECLASI @consumeraction @hi_Hildreth @HERAdvocates @NEAToday @EdDebtJustice @PublicCounsel @theSBPC @DebtCrisisOrg @studentvets @GIBillRights @TICAS_org for fighting for student borrowers with disabilities.

"It is truly a travesty that @usedgov knows of hundreds of thousands of borrowers with disabilities who are entitled to have their federal student loans cancelled and yet it has failed...to provide borrowers with this vital relief" - @YuPersis https://t.co/Y6JKphFouD

BREAKING: @usedgov withholding debt discharges for more nearly 518,000 student borrowers with disabilities entitled to relief. https://t.co/gfoNz0aPmk

It's past time for @usedgov to use evidence and findings from its own cases "to provide immediate, automatic debt relief to borrowers who have waited all too long for justice." - @AlexanderElson https://t.co/f3KmqWumSB

Thousands of harmed students at schools where @usedgov brought its own enforcement actions are still waiting for relief. A huge opportunity for @RichCordray! https://t.co/ujrAzPEm3r

For profit college accreditor ACICS became a rubber stamp for some of the nation’s most predatory schools. This critical move to terminate their federal recognition will protect thousands of students. https://t.co/YIPhTVl7UC

Accreditors are supposed to act as trusted overseers of colleges and universities, but ACICS chose to be a rubber stamp for many of America’s most predatory for-profit colleges. By terminating ACICS’s recognition, @usedgov is taking an important step to protect students. https://t.co/yJOqIKOuPG

Will you chip in today to help our work defending students?

Working to advance students' rights to educational opportunity and to ensure that higher education provides a launching point for economic mobility.

100 Day Docket

Sen. Tom Harkin & Aaron Ament Push for Relief for Borrowers with Disabilities

Student Defense & Senator Elizabeth Warren Call on DeVos to Hold Predatory College Executives Personally Accountable

Students Accuse Lambda Coding School of Deceptive Recruitment Practices, Misrepresenting Job Placement Rates

Lawsuit: DeVos Illegally Repealed Student Protections

Our Work

The faces of the for-profit college crisis

@StudentLegalNet

The U.S. Department of Education has *proof* that more than half a million borrowers with disabilities are *legally entitled* to a loan discharge but still haven't received it. https://t.co/3awZJN6vtH cc: @aarthiswami @RichCordray @SecCardona @usedgov

18 organizations are calling on @usedgov to take action. Thank you @DECLASI @consumeraction @hi_Hildreth @HERAdvocates @NEAToday @EdDebtJustice @PublicCounsel @theSBPC @DebtCrisisOrg @studentvets @GIBillRights @TICAS_org for fighting for student borrowers with disabilities.

"It is truly a travesty that @usedgov knows of hundreds of thousands of borrowers with disabilities who are entitled to have their federal student loans cancelled and yet it has failed...to provide borrowers with this vital relief" - @YuPersis https://t.co/Y6JKphFouD

BREAKING: @usedgov withholding debt discharges for more nearly 518,000 student borrowers with disabilities entitled to relief. https://t.co/gfoNz0aPmk

It's past time for @usedgov to use evidence and findings from its own cases "to provide immediate, automatic debt relief to borrowers who have waited all too long for justice." - @AlexanderElson https://t.co/f3KmqWumSB

Thousands of harmed students at schools where @usedgov brought its own enforcement actions are still waiting for relief. A huge opportunity for @RichCordray! https://t.co/ujrAzPEm3r

For profit college accreditor ACICS became a rubber stamp for some of the nation’s most predatory schools. This critical move to terminate their federal recognition will protect thousands of students. https://t.co/YIPhTVl7UC

Accreditors are supposed to act as trusted overseers of colleges and universities, but ACICS chose to be a rubber stamp for many of America’s most predatory for-profit colleges. By terminating ACICS’s recognition, @usedgov is taking an important step to protect students. https://t.co/yJOqIKOuPG

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The U.S. Department of Education has proof that more than half a million borrowers with disabilities are legally entitled to a loan discharge but still haven't received it. https://t.co/3awZJN6vtH cc: @aarthiswami @RichCordray @SecCardona @usedgov