Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Sued AGAIN Over Siding With Scam Colleges

Via America's Lawyer: Nearly two dozen states sue education secretary Betsy DeVos for failing to protect students against predatory loans and for-profit colleges. Mike Papantonio is joined by Brigida Santos to discuss more.

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Twenty-two state attorney generals have sued the US education secretary for siding with profit over school's best interest. RT's Brigida Santos joins me now with the story. Brigida, what States are taking Betsy DeVos to the court and let me, let me preface it by saying, you know, I don't know how many stories in the last two months we've done on Betsy DeVos, but she is like a magnet for really ugly stuff. And I'm just wondering which States had the courage to say, you know, not on my watch. Talk to me about it.

Well, the lawsuit is being led by the attorneys general of California and Massachusetts with other AGs joining from the district of Columbia and 20 other States, including Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, Virginia, New York and more. The coalition is challenging a 2019 rule rewrite by education secretary, Betsy DeVos, that makes it almost impossible for students who have been defrauded by for profit colleges to have their federal student loans canceled. The 2019 rule rolls back key Obama era borrower defense to repayment protections that offered students relief from federal loans that were borrowed based on the fraudulent, misleading or illegal claims of higher education institutions. Because students can no longer use violations of state consumer protection laws as a defense in their student loan forgiveness cases, predatory universities are now shielded from nearly all accountability.

Well, there's more to that story. I heard you talk about, you know, Obama came forward with an idea for it, but you understand that the backstory on that. The backstory is that you used to be able to take use bankruptcy court. If you were working, you were trying to pay it off and you just couldn't pay it off, you had some protection with bankruptcy court. Well, Obama during his years as a Senator, voted against that and provided bankruptcy protection that closed the door for students to be able to have protection from these re, you know, from, from being dogged every day of their life to have this thing paid back. So there's a lot more to this story than this surface. What scams have for profit colleges engaged in? In other words, the, they, they, they, they gauge, I mean, they, they engage in scams. Then the student comes out sometimes without a degree at all, and they still have to pay back this loan. That's the typical kind of story, isn't it?

Yeah. And there's so many of these scams, but this lawsuit particularly highlights some of the scams by proprietary universities, including enrolling students in professional certification programs that actually lack accreditation that's needed for students to obtain licenses in their profession when they're done with school, while failing to disclose that information to students. It also outlines how the for profit school industry is prone to abusing it's access to taxpayer funded title four aid, which these proprietary colleges heavily rely on in order to generate money. One reason the Obama administration implemented the 2015 rule after voting against it previously was because years of investigations exposed how for profit schools, including ITT tech, DeVry, Corinthian colleges, and so on, have long defrauded students out of that money.

Yeah. So you see these advertisements. Can you draw this stick figure, if you are, you're going to be the next Renoir. You probably want to come to our college and we're going to get you this degree. And after we get this degree, we're going to get you a job and you're going to be making a ton of money. That was always the come on, come on and become a, become a nurse, come on and become a doctor's assistant, become a paralegal and most of absolute scams.

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