U.S. Department of Education Delays Implementation of Student-Borrower Protection Rules, Prompting Lawsuits by State Attorneys General
Author: Ralph Gerstein.; Lois Gerstein.
Source: Volume 19, Number 01, Fall 2017 , pp.5-6(2)
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Abstract:
Numerous students have incurred substantial debts to attend for-profit schools, only to find out later that the schools have failed to live up to their contracts or have misrepresented their programs. The U.S. Department of Education, during the last two years of the Obama Administration, enacted a series of proposed regulations designed to provide borrower defenses for students in such cases. The regulations were supposed to go into effect in July 2017. The protections afforded students were significant, but Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued an order (known as a delay notice) postponing the implementation of the rules. Massachusetts (through its Attorney General, Maura Healey) and 18 then moved to file a lawsuit to compel DeVos to implement the rules. We examine the substance of the rules, and a time line of the AG suit against the U.S Department of Education.Keywords: 34 Code of Federal Regulations Section 685.222; Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al. v. U.S. Department of Education
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