School Accountability & Student Protections

Our Letter to the Department of Education on the Western Association of Colleges and Schools, Senior College and University Commission (WASCSR)

January 20, 2022 Dr. Herman Bounds Director Accreditation Group, Office of Postsecondary Education U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202 RE: Call for Comments 86 FR 71251, Document Number 2021-27095 Submitted [...]

Student Veteran Submission: Jonelle Daugherty Testimony to the Department of Education

Good afternoon. My name is Jonelle Daugherty, and I am a Navy reservist. I started pursuing a PhD in Sports and Performance Psychology in 2014 at University of the Rockies. In 2018, University of the [...]

Student Veteran Submission: Myrna Figueroa Lopez Testimony to the Department of Education

Good afternoon, my name is Myrna Figeruoa Lopez and I’m an Air Force veteran from Puyallup, Washington. I am also a single mom who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and PTSD. After a difficult divorce, I [...]

Student Veteran Submission: David Reyasbautista Testimony to the Department of Education

Good Afternoon. My name is David Reyasbautista. I am a Marine Corps veteran and am here to tell my story in the hope that you make sure others do not experience what happened to me [...]

Our Letter to the Community College Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) on Their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the American Public University System (APUS)

January 14, 2022 Chancellor Eloy Oakley Deputy Chancellor Daisy Gonzales California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office 1102 Q Street, 6th Floor Sacramento, CA 95811 RE: Concerns Regarding the MOU Signed Between the CCCCO and APUS Dear [...]

Statement from Barmak Nassirian on President Biden’s Executive Order on PSLF and Student Loans

Statement from Barmak Nassirian Vice President for Higher Education Policy, Veterans Education Success on President Biden’s Executive Order Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government December 13, 2021 "We appreciate [...]

Our Letter Support The Build Back Better Bill’s Investments In Higher Education

November 17, 2021 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker United States House of Representatives S-221, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Chuck Schumer Majority Leader United States Senate S-221, The Capitol Washington, DC 20510 Dear [...]

Republic Report: California Opens Fraud Trial Against College Now Owned by Arizona

The advocacy group Veterans Education Success has received more than 100 complaints from Ashford students, with concerns covering recruiting, the quality of education, tuition costs, transferability of credits, and job placement. Read the full story at [...]

Background on the Protect the GI Bill Act: Understanding Section 1016 In 2016, a unanimous Congress enacted the Career Ready Student Veterans Act, preventing GI Bill funding to be wasted at education programs which leave [...]

Our Press Release: Local Veterans Testify to Education Department to Call for New Solutions to Help Veterans Scammed by For-Profit Colleges

STORIES OF HOW NEW SOLUTIONS ARE BEING DEVELOPED  TO HELP VETERANS SCAMMED BY FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES I’m writing to share elements of a compelling story I hope you’ll consider doing on the issue of veterans’ being [...]

Our Media Advisory: CA Attorney General Trial Starts Monday 11/8 Against For-Profit College Ashford U For Defrauding Students – Especially Veterans  

Media Advisory & Backgrounder:  Higher Ed & Veterans Story Contacts: Carrie Wofford, President, carrie@vetsedsuccess.org   Christopher Madaio, VP for Legal Affairs, chris@vetsedsuccess.org     CA ATTORNEY GENERAL TRIAL STARTS MONDAY 11/8  AGAINST FOR-PROFIT COLLEGE ASHFORD U FOR [...]

Our Letter to the Education Department on Keeping the 90/10 Loophole Closed

November 3, 2021 U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, Room 2C188, Washington, DC 20202 Submitted via electronic portal Re: Negotiated Rulemaking Committee; Public Hearings (Docket ID ED-2021-OPE-0077) To Whom It May Concern: In [...]

The American Legion Testimony on the 90/10 Loophole at the Department of Education Hearings

NEGOTIATED RULEMAKING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION JOSEPH SHARPE PUBLIC COMMENT On behalf of National Commander Paul Dillard and the nearly two million members of The American Legion, we thank The Department of Education for inviting us [...]

WTKR News (Norfolk): Virginia Beach veteran says she was scammed out of GI Bill benefits

"We have gotten complaints from many, many veterans from at least 10, significantly large for-profit institutions, that many veterans are not really being told the truth," said Chris Madaio, the vice president for legal affairs [...]

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) Testimony on the 90/10 Loophole at the Department of Education Hearings

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Testimony on the 90/10 Loophole at the Department of Education Hearings Ashlynne Haycock, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) January 19, 4:20 PM Good Morning, my name is Ashlynne Haycock [...]

Student Veteran Submission: Jonelle Daugherty Testimony to the Department of Education

Good afternoon. My name is Jonelle Daugherty, and I am a Navy reservist. I started pursuing a PhD in Sports and Performance Psychology in 2014 at University of the Rockies. In 2018, University of the [...]

The Hill: For-profit colleges prey on veterans — the Department of Education must say ‘no more’

By Will Hubbard The following op-ed was published in The Hill. For decades, for-profit colleges have used deceptive marketing to recruit veterans into expensive, practically worthless degree programs and mountains of debt. Veterans and their [...]

Student Veteran Submission: Myrna Figueroa Lopez Testimony to the Department of Education

Good afternoon, my name is Myrna Figeruoa Lopez and I’m an Air Force veteran from Puyallup, Washington. I am also a single mom who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and PTSD. After a difficult divorce, I [...]

Student Veteran Submission: David Reyasbautista Testimony to the Department of Education

Good Afternoon. My name is David Reyasbautista. I am a Marine Corps veteran and am here to tell my story in the hope that you make sure others do not experience what happened to me [...]

DoD Response Letter to our Executive Order Suggestions

JAN 10, 2022 Ms. Carrie Wofford President Veterans Education Success 1501 K Street NW Washington, D.C. 20005 Dear Ms. Wofford: Thank you for your recent communication dated October 5, 2021, to the Honorable Gilbert Cisneros, [...]

The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS): Accountability That Works: Restoring Gainful Employment and Strengthening Higher Education Accountability Measures

Across higher education sectors, too many students experience inconsistent programmatic quality and varying graduation rates, all while taking on loan debt that burdens them for years to come. These challenges grow as more institutions increase [...]

Military.com: Student Veterans Battle for GI Bill Benefits at MIT, Another School Fighting the VA

Will Hubbard, vice president for veterans and military policy for Veterans Education Success, a GI Bill advocacy group in Washington, D.C., told Military.com that the MIT and Howard situations are a bad combination of the [...]

Department of Veterans Affairs: GI Bill Procedural Update – Prohibitions on Advertising, Sales, and Enrollment Practices

Greetings Educational Institutions, Section 1020 of P.L. 116-315, Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020, and section 7(a)(5) of P.L. 117-16, Training in High-demand Roles to Improve Veteran [...]

CBS News: Lender charged 200% interest to military families for pawn loans, CFPB says

U.S. military families are being socked with annual interest rates sometimes exceeding 200% on pawn loans they've taken out from a Texas company, a violation of a federal law that caps how much lenders can [...]