The Department of Education on Tuesday outlined qualifications for potential negotiators taking up the borrower-defense and gainful-employment regulations in separate rule-making panels later this year.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced in June that she would block the borrower-defense rule from going into effect and establish separate panels to reconsider both sets of regulations. The borrower-defense rule outlined a process for student borrowers defrauded by their institutions to seek discharge of their student loans. The gainful-employment rule sought to hold career education programs accountable for graduating students with more debt than they could pay off.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/08/30/nominations-invited-rule-making-panels
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