WASHINGTON, DC – Student Defense and U.S. Congresswoman Katie Porter today called on the Department of Education to use every tool in its arsenal to improve enforcement against predatory colleges...
WASHINGTON, DC – In a case challenging the unfair denial of loan relief to a student who recently passed away, a federal district court ruled against Secretary of Education Betsy...
WASHINGTON, DC – The incoming administration can take immediate steps to improve protections for students in higher education, without Congressional action. Over the past two months, Student Defense has laid...
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Patty Murray (D-WA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent a letter calling on Secretary of Education Betsy...
WASHINGTON, DC – The Attorneys General of Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania joined Student Defense today to call on the Department of Education to restore and improve a rule providing automatic...
Democracy Journal published a special symposium on the future of enforcement in a Biden administration, featuring an article by Student Defense President Aaron Ament, and Vice President Dan Zibel. The...
WASHINGTON, DC – Student Defense Litigation Director Eric Rothschild issued a statement regarding House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott’s subpoena of several Department of Education employees regarding their...
WASHINGTON, DC – Responding to a lawsuit filed in federal court, the Department of Education acknowledged that the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Federal Student Aid (FSA) did not have...
WASHINGTON, DC – Student Defense and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin today called on the Department of Education to expand debt relief to more student loan borrowers, through the use of...
WASHINGTON, DC – Student Defense and U.S. Senator Chris Coons today called on the Department of Education to provide total and permanent disability (TPD) student loan discharges to more than...
WASHINGTON, DC – Student Defense and Senator Elizabeth Warren today called on the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos to hold college owners and executives personally liable for...