SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS) — Veterans from across the country will travel to the nation’s capital to meet with officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Education, and on Capitol Hill to help inform the government’s thinking about how predatory colleges take advantage of student veterans and their hard-earned education benefits.
The “Veterans Voices” event is being sponsored by Veterans Education Success, a bipartisan, non-profit organization that has been working to ensure the promise and integrity of the GI Bill and other federal education benefits.
Veterans Education Success is holding this event so that veterans can share their school experiences and highlight the importance of protecting veterans and the GI Bill. The veterans coming to Washington attended low quality programs and were treated unconscionably by their schools, sometimes with devastating consequences.
They will have opportunities to speak with federal policymakers across the government.
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