{"id":178602,"date":"2018-10-16T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/16\/fairness-and-decency-1-betsy-devos-0\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T23:30:00","slug":"fairness-and-decency-1-betsy-devos-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/16\/fairness-and-decency-1-betsy-devos-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairness and Decency \u2014 1: Betsy DeVos \u2014 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that the Federal Courts do not take kindly to the conceit that it’s OK to defraud students because it’s rich people doing it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Obama-era rules that lay out how students defrauded by colleges can erase their debt took effect Tuesday, after the Trump administration and an association of for-profit colleges lost their bids to delay them.<\/span>

<\/span>That means that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is now responsible for implementing a rule that she said makes it too easy for students to cancel their student loans and that she has fought to kill.<\/span>

<\/span>Consumer advocates back the regulations, saying the government must take a more aggressive stance against colleges that they say routinely take advantage of veterans and vulnerable students.<\/span>

<\/span>But conservatives worry about the hit to taxpayers if a large number of student borrowers are allowed to avoid paying off their loans. In addition, colleges, particularly for-profit ventures, opposed the Obama administration rules as harmful to their programs and students seeking loans to attend them.<\/span>

<\/span>The federal government has a virtual monopoly over the $100 billion-a-year student loan market, so the rules about how it will handle fraud and other issues are important.<\/span>

<\/span>In June 2017, DeVos put the regulations on hold and said she would replace them with her own. Two former students of a for-profit college, as well as 19 states and the District, sued to stop the delay.<\/span>

<\/span>Last month, a U.S. district court said that the DeVos move was \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d and that the rules should take effect. It gave the agency until last Friday to try to issue a new delay, but the Education Department said it would not try again.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cThe secretary respects the role of the court and will defer to its judgment in whether parts of the 2016 rule will go into effect,\u201d Elizabeth Hill, a DeVos spokeswoman, said Friday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a morass of incompetence, corruption, and soulless evil at the Trump Administration, Betsy DeVoss is truly in a class of her own.<\/p>\n

It’s good to see her lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that the Federal Courts do not take kindly to the conceit that it’s OK to defraud students because it’s rich people doing it: Obama-era rules that lay out how students defrauded by colleges can erase their debt took effect Tuesday, after the Trump administration and an association of for-profit colleges lost their bids …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,397,364,407],"class_list":["post-178602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-education","tag-evil","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}