Education Department data details struggle for students who feel defrauded

Mark

"Education Department (ED) data obtained by Yahoo Finance details a backlog of claims from U.S. college students who felt defrauded, underscoring the Trump administration's deregulatory actions toward U.S. higher education and the regulatory issues inherited by the Biden administration.

U.S. citizens and eligible non-citizens with federally-backed student debt can apply for borrower defense if their college or career school education misled them "or engaged in other misconduct in violation of certain state laws," according to the ED's Federal Student Aid office."

There should be a way to close these places yesterday.

Crash

Accountability has been systematically made to be more and more remote and distant from the ones who must depend upon it as a last resort. Further, to make the appeal that School X is a private, for-profit institution and that therefore accountability is virtually out of reach is a cop-out, a vicious circle. On the other hand, consumers/would-be students also need to use their brains to see through the slick advertisements, to read between the lines: US law permits virtually ANYTHING to be said or claimed by advertisers--- as long as there are more straightforward and truthful disclaimers in the tiny print which the commercial never gives you time to read. Why can't people understand this? ALL advertisements are lies. And no matter which political party is in charge, they let the lying go on.

It works about as well as the "Do Not Call List." You can add your name, but it won't do you any good. Because the list is a make-believe weapon against fraud. Just like fine-print disclaimers.