AP sources: Education Dept. could scale back help on loans

WASHINGTON (AP) " The Education Department is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, according to department officials, abandoning the Obama administration's policy of erasing that debt.Under President Barack Obama, tens of thousands of students deceived by now-defunct for-profit schools had over $550 million in such loans canceled.But President Donald Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is working on a plan that [...]


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