We work on a bipartisan basis to ensure military-connected students have access to high quality education and career opportunities.

POLICY ISSUES

Learn more about the key policy issues. Read our reports and advocacy letters.

Quality of Education & Student Outcomes

A good quality education is important for student success.

School Accountability & Student Protections

Students have rights and colleges must be held to a higher standard.

GI Bill & Other Education Benefits

We protect the integrity and promise of key programs like the GI Bill, Tuition Assistance, Voc Rehab.

Toolkit for State Policymakers

We offer practical solutions for state leaders to protect veterans in higher education.

Student Loan Debt

We work on policy to alleviate student loan debt.

Disabled Veterans’ Loan Rights

We had a major win for disabled veterans’ right to student loan forgiveness. Still more to do!

Loan Relief for Defrauded Students

We fight for defrauded veterans to get their student loans forgiven.

Integrity and Quality Standards by Colleges

Colleges should abide by basic integrity rules and meet minimum quality standards.

Accreditation and Accreditors

We push for high quality standards by accreditors and we expose lax accreditors.

90/10 Loophole

We can stop college fraud against veterans by closing this loophole.

VA’s Obligation to Stop Deceptive Colleges

We push VA to stop colleges’ deceptive recruiting.

School Closures

We work to ensure veterans get their GI Bill back if their school closes.

GI Bill Delays

We work to ensure the GI Bill arrives on time and delays are fixed.

VA Ethics Rules

When VA wanted to waive federal ethics rules, we stopped it.

Specific Schools

Learn here about VA actions against schools.

DOD Tuition Assistance

Servicemembers deserve high-quality education for their Tuition Assistance.

Consumer Protection

We fight for military families’ consumer rights.

Deceptive Websites & College Advertising

We find and stop deceptive websites and college ads.

Illegal Fraud

Our legal team finds and stops fraud.

OUR ADVOCACY

See how we are working to advance higher education success, protecting the integrity and promise of the GI Bill.

Our Advocacy Letters

  • We collaborate with our veteran & military allies to maximize our collective advocacy impact.  We frequently submit formal letters, with policy recommendations, to federal agencies and Congress.

Our Work With Congress

  • We work with Congressional Committees and Members to introduce bills, hold hearings, and urge the executive branch to protect military-connected students.

Our Work with the Executive Branch

  • We work with federal agencies to ensure military-connected students’ hard-earned education benefits are successful and effective.

Our Work with the States

  • An emerging area of our work is helping state policymakers better understand and address the need to improve college quality and accountability.

Congressional Roundtable: From GI Bill Student to U.S. Representative

In 2020 we hosted a roundtable discussion featuring Members of Congress who used federal education benefit programs like the GI Bill to support their journey through higher education. Learn what they said about their experience and more. 

Highlights from the Congressional Roundtable

Blue Star Families are truly grateful to Veterans Education Success

“All of us at Blue Star Families are truly grateful to Veterans Education Success for their indispensable work fighting to ensure our veterans and the military spouses and children who earned the GI Bill receive the value of it.  Veterans Education Success is the leader in working with Congress to help us maintain this important benefit and fight against bad actors who would leave veterans and family members with worthless credentials.  Carrie Wofford is a visionary and dedicated leader I am proud to know through her three decades of work for the public good.”

– Blue Star Families CEO Kathy Roth-Douquet

The work of Veterans Education Success has been absolutely critical

“The work of Veterans Education Success has been absolutely critical to efforts to ensure that veterans get the value they deserve from the GI Bill. Whether they are advising an individual vet or putting together a research project, the team at Veterans Education Success is top-notch”

– Bob Shireman, The Century Foundation

Veterans Education Success has been such an exceptional leader for years

“Veterans Education Success has been such an exceptional leader for years in efforts to defend military and veteran education benefits. They continually defend the Post-9/11 GI Bill from cuts and abuse and have advocated for smart policy to expand the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Today, they are spearheading the fight to ensure the Congressional re-authorization of the Higher Education Act is free from provisions that hurt vets. They are true leaders and we are fortunate to partner with them. Carrie Wofford and her team are top watchdogs, always fighting to preserve the benefits women and men have earned through their service.”

– Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Founder Paul Rieckhoff