19 attorneys general sue Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over gainful employment rule
Nineteen U.S. attorneys general are suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for overturning an Obama-era rule designed to protect students from predatory higher education institutions.
The 2014 gainful employment rule was created by the Obama administration to ensure that schools many of them for-profit colleges were denied access to federal aid if their graduates had weak career prospects and heavy debt loads.
DeVos repealed the rule in July 2019, and her decision goes into effect on July 1.
On June 24, attorneys general of the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Colorado, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia sued Betsy DeVos and her agency. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in D.C.
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