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

We advocate for improved quality and student success in higher education.

School Accountability & Student Protections

We stand up for students’ rights and to hold colleges to a higher standard.

GI Bill® & Other Education Benefits

We protect the integrity and promise of key programs like the GI Bill, Tuition Assistance, and VR&E.

Student Loans

We work for student loan relief for veterans.

Disabled Veterans’ Loan Rights

We are the leaders in fighting for disabled veterans’ student loan relief and rights.

Loan Relief for Defrauded Students

We fight for loan relief for defrauded students.

Accreditation & Quality Standards for Colleges

We press accreditors and the Education Department to raise the floor on college integrity and quality standards.

90/10 Loophole

For-profit colleges target veterans with fraud partly because of this loophole.

Deceptive Colleges

We protect veterans, servicemembers, and their families from colleges’ deceptive recruiting.

Deceptive Websites

We find and stop deceptive websites and ads.

VA Oversight of GI Bill®

We work with VA to ensure its oversight of GI Bill® and its rules work for student veterans.

School Closures

We protect students’ rights, including veterans’ GI Bill, if their school closes.

Illegal Fraud

Our legal team finds and stops fraud.

Racial Justice

America must ensure equity for students of color, especially veterans and servicemembers, who are more likely to be racially diverse than the general population.

Consumer Protection

We fight for military families’ consumer rights.

DOD Tuition Assistance

We work to ensure servicemembers receive a quality education for their Tuition Assistance.

Military Lending Under Attack

We mobilized a bipartisan response to a Trump Administration policy

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

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

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