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Attorney General Raoul Applauds Over $220 Million in Relief to Thousands of Defrauded Illinois Students
Attorney General Raoul Applauds Over $220 Million in Relief to Thousands of Defrauded Illinois Students. -
Reps. Davis and Peters in Chicago Tribune: “employers Should Try to Attract Workers by Offering Student Loan Debt Help”
Reps. Davis and Peters in Chicago Tribune: “employers Should Try to Attract Workers by Offering Student Loan Debt Help”. -
ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: Attorney General Raoul Announces Department of Education Will Discharge $16 Million in Federal Student Loans for Former Students of Westwood College
Attorney General Kwame Raoul applauded the U.S. Department of Education for its decision to discharge $16 million in federal student loans for Illinois borrowers who attended Westwood College's criminal justice programs. -
ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: Attorney General Raoul Urges Congress to Pass the Eagles Act of 2021
Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery led a coalition of 40 attorneys general urging Congress to pass the EAGLES Act of 2021, which would provide research-based threat assessment training to prevent targeted school violence. -
ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: Attorney General Raoul Files Lawsuit Against Department of Education Over Critical Borrower Defense Regulations
Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the U.S. Department of Education challenging their action to unlawfully repeal the 2016 borrower defense regulations and replace them with regulations that do nothing more than benefit predatory for-profit schools at the expense of defrauded students. -
ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: Attorney General Raoul Files Brief in Support of Loan Forgiveness for Public Servants
Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general to file an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in support of public servants who were promised federal student loan debt forgiveness in exchange for 10 years of public service, but who, after serving that time, have been denied debt relief due to the U.S. Department of Education’s mismanagement of the program. -
ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: Attorney General Raoul Announces Department of Education Will Discharge at Least $10 Million in Federal Student Loans
Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that nearly 1,000 former Illinois Institute of Art students will have their federal student loans discharged at the request of Raoul and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. -
Lisa Madigan joins the War on Profit
What is it with some politicians and for-profit colleges? They just can't stand them. -
State universities’ mounting financial woes burdening Illinois students, taxpayers
As college students across Illinois’ nine public universities make their way to their respective campuses in the days ahead, few may realize just how little of their tuition is going directly toward instructional spending for the 2016-17 academic year. -
If you think Common Core is scary, better hide from the new 'Community Schools'
The essence of the new education system, Community Schools, is to provide every need (every meal, health care), to the student. -
Reaping tens of millions from Common Core: The Gates/Pearson Partnership
To the Editor:Follow the money. It all ends up in the hands of a very few. Pearson Foundation is getting the contracts because of its partnership with the Bill Gates Foundation. Greed, secrecy, deceptions, and lies …. and to think Democrats accuse Republicans of these very things, while Democrats are the ones using government to get richer. The deceptions run very deep. It’s time for exposure. The -
SIUE employee indicted for misusing federal grant funds
An employee of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville was indicted Tuesday in federal court in East St. Louis for wire fraud, misapplication of funds from programs receiving federal funds, and obstructing justice by tampering with a witness by a federal grand jury.