Betsy DeVos Sued By Coalition Of States Over Failure To Protect Student Loan Borrowers

This may be the first of many lawsuits of this kind.

onJuly 6, 2017 at 3:12 PMJuly 6, 2017 at 2:47 PM

Betsy DeVos (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Since day one, Secretary DeVos has sided with for-profit school executives against students and families drowning in unaffordable student loans. Her decision to cancel vital protections for students and taxpayers is a betrayal of her office’s responsibility and a violation of federal law.

— Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, commenting on the lawsuit filed today by a coalition of 18 states and the District of Columbia against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, in the wake of the Department of Education’s decision to freeze borrower defense rules for the discharge of student debt for borrowers who were misled or cheated by their schools.

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