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18 Jan 2017, 5:10 am
Billionaire Betsy DeVos was the target of Democratic senators, as her confirmation hearing as Secretary of the Department of Education got underway. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 12:44 pm
Last week, Congressional representatives Maxine Waters, D-CA, Bobby Scott, D-VA, and Elijah Cummings, D-MD, as chairs of committees with oversight responsibility for the student loan servicing market, sent letters to CFPB Director Kathleen Kraninger and Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos about their concerns with the current state of the student loan industry. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 3:41 pm
[Abacus Next] * Why didn't Betsy DeVos get prepared properly? [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 10:10 am
Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticizing the ED’s withdrawal of various memoranda issued during the Obama Administration regarding federal student loan servicing reforms. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 11:18 am
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that the office of Federal Student Aid is executing on President Trump’s promise to provide student loan relief during the COVID-19 pandemic through several initiatives: All borrowers with federally held student loans will automatically have their interest rates set to 0% for a period of at least 60 days. [read post]
5 Nov 2019, 10:42 am
However, the court order did not stop Betsy DeVos, whose department continued to pursue the payments. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 7:56 am
In a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, EFC expresses concern that state efforts to impose regulations on student loan servicers contracted by the federal government to service federal student loans threaten “to add an unnecessary web of regulations which are both duplicative and potentially contradictory to existing federal regulations and policies. [read post]
9 Jun 2017, 3:03 am
This is big: Betsy DeVos appoints First Amendment advocate Adam Kissel as Deputy Assistant Secretary for higher ed programs [Inside Higher Ed] “He is currently exploring restorative justice from an anti-authoritarian perspective. [read post]
23 May 2018, 1:21 pm
The New Jersey Attorney General, Gurbir Grewal, has sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy Devos in which the NJ AG invites the ED to work with his office “to ensure that any investigations of fraudulent activities by educational institutions are completed properly, rather than ended prematurely or allowed to grow dormant. [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 10:57 am
In several stunning revelations, Betsy DeVos announced on November 27, 2018 in a press release that the federal government has 1.5 trillion dollars of federal student loan debt (more than credit card debt and auto loans combined). [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 1:22 pm
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, challenging a new US Department of Education (DE) rule impeding defrauded students from seeking financial relief. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 11:42 am
Following a remand from the D.C. federal district court, Department of Education (ED) Secretary Betsy DeVos has issued an order restoring the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools’ (ACICS) status as a federally recognized accrediting agency. [read post]
1 Sep 2018, 11:56 am
The Education Department is preparing new rules that would roll back the monstrously unfair Obama-era requirements for how colleges handle sexual-assault and harassment allegations. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 10:59 am
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has selected a former dean at DeVry University (a for-profit college) to lead the Department of Education’s Student-Aid Enforcement Unit, which was established to combat fraud in higher education. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 6:10 am
[USA Today] * Betsy DeVos reversing campus rape rules to make Baylor great again. [read post]
24 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
Last Friday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded the Obama-era Title IX guidance (which took the form of a “Dear Colleague” letter) on campus sexual assault, because the Obama approach allegedly denied due process to students accused of rape. [read post]
21 Oct 2017, 8:17 pm
A spokeswoman for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos did not respond to requests for comment. [read post]
15 Dec 2019, 1:09 pm
WSJ.com [paywall]: “Prominent figures from Jacob Gottlieb to Betsy DeVos got help from a reputation management firm that can bury image-sensitive Google results by placing flattering content on websites that masquerade as news outlets..Jacob Gottlieb was considering raising money for a hedge fund. [read post]
7 Jun 2020, 6:57 am
Department of Education and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos over the new, finalized Title IX rule Thursday. [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 11:32 am
According to Lacewell, the Trump administration and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have “dismantled critical consumer protections available to students” and “gutt[ed]” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s student lending office. [read post]
