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Education Department Faces Federal Lawsuit as Student Loan Crisis Deepens for Millions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education, escalating tensions over what the union describes as an illegal and abrupt shutdown of student loan relief programs that has left millions of borrowers facing higher payments amid economic uncertainty. Randi Weingarten The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the U.S.

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Walden University Settles in False Advertising and 'Reverse Red-Lining' Lawsuit

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The class of people included in this case are all Black students who were enrolled in Walden’s DBA program from 2007 to 2017 and all female students enrolled in the program in the same time period who had received student loans, according to Ramchandani. “In

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From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs

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that help learners from low-income backgrounds achieve upward mobility; provide student and employee success solutions to colleges and businesses; invest in education-focused innovations to improve learner outcomes; and provide information, tools and counseling to help millions of borrowers successfully repay their federal student loans.

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Public Service Workers: Take Action by October 31, 2022 To Take Advantage of Temporarily Improved Loan Forgiveness Rules

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The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program offers to cancel certain types of federal student loans for people who spend 10 years working in public service jobs and meet the program requirements. Borrowers can get the form online, from loan servicer MOHELA, or using the PSLF Help Tool.

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Student Loan Forgiveness: Programs for Relief, Plus the Latest on Mass Forgiveness

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Student loan forgiveness can wipe out part or all of your student loan debt. The big news on the student loan forgiveness front is that the federal government plans to forgive up to $10,000 in federally held student debt, or up to $20,000 if you previously received a Pell Grant. ( See more below ).

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The Best Shot for the Supreme Court to Save Loan Forgiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many experts believe that the Biden administration’s plan for student loan forgiveness, which offers $10,000 of debt relief to most borrowers and $20,000 to Pell Grant recipients, is dead in the water at the conservative-dominated Supreme Court. They show that these sorts of suits have skyrocketed since 2007.

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More Relief for Student Debt Borrowers

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billion in student debt cancellation for over 60,000 borrowers under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. This latest relief brings the total number of public service workers who have had their student loans forgiven under the Biden-Harris administration to over 1 million.

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