For a decade, we have secured major wins for students who were defrauded. For example, during the first Trump Administration, when nobody was securing wins, we did. We worked with the nation’s leading veterans organizations to secure GOP support on a bipartisan vote and then we ran a highly impactful TV ad on Fox News urging President Trump to sign it. We got our Research Director Walter Ochinko at the table as an official negotiator in both 2018 and 2016 representing veteran and military students on the negotiated rulemaking panel on Borrower Defense.  And our VP Barmak Nassirian had a leading voice as an official negotiator representing veteran and military students in 2022 negotiated rulemaking panels. (We also pursue defrauded veterans’ legal rights here).

Testimony

We are proud of our Law Fellow Jennifer Esparza, who spoke forcefully to the Department of Education about her experience working on the front lines of serving defrauded student veterans who have been cheated out of their GI Bill.

Capitol Hill Press Conference

We joined Senators on Capitol Hill in urging common sense borrower defense rules that protect defrauded student veterans, and in criticizing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ unfair rules that penalized defrauded veterans.

Our TV Ad

More than 30 of the nation’s leading military and veteran service organizations put up a TV Ad on Fox News urging President Trump to stand with veterans who were defrauded out of their GI Bill and tricked into signing student loans.

OUR WORK

2021 Education Department Hearings

Veterans’ Testimony at Negotiated Rulemaking

We encouraged veterans to share their experiences with fraudulent colleges at the Education Department’s public testimony sessions in October, November, and December for its negotiated rulemaking sessions.

October Hearing

We encouraged individual veterans at the Education Department’s public hearings to testify about appropriately implementing the 90/10 loophole closure.

June Hearings

We encouraged individual veterans as well as veterans leaders to testify at the Education Department’s public hearings in 2021 about borrower defense and other key accountability and quality issues in higher education.

2017 Education Department Hearings

We mobilized veterans and military service organizations to speak out at U.S. Education Department public hearings:

October 2017

September 2017

July 2017 

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