Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told lawmakers Wednesday that her department will follow through on promises to provide loan forgiveness to borrowers who attended for-profit colleges found to have defrauded students.
“Those to whom we’ve made commitments, we are going to make good on that commitment and that is in process,” DeVos said at a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee hearing on the department’s budget proposal.
In a hearing in which members of Congress mostly quizzed the secretary about large proposed cuts to programs for students across the department in the White House budget, Massachusetts Democrat Katherine Clark pressed DeVos to affirm that the department would move forward with promised loan forgiveness.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/25/devos-says-education-dept-will-provide-relief-students-promised-loan-discharge
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