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Obama's Education Secretary Pick a 'Lackey of the Corporate Machine'

No More Excuses: Sen. Warren Lambastes DOE on Student Loans

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

Can the U.S. Department of Education be trusted to protect the millions of Americans with federal student loans? U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has tussled with the federal agency before, isn't so sure. She said as much in a letter (pdf) sent Thursday to acting Education Secretary John King Jr., in which she describes an independent...

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Student Debt Strikers Call Fed's Loan Forgiveness Plan a Bureaucratic Sham

Jon Queally, staff writer

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on Monday that "You’d have to be made of stone not to feel for these students," but critics of the new plan say the DOE's new plan simply adds unnecessary bureaucratic barriers to a policy of loan forgiveness that could be much easier. (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)

Despite a new announcement by the U.S. Department of Education that it will...

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'We Refuse to be Pawns': Student Debt Strikers Slam Education Department

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

A group of student debt strikers will boycott a meeting scheduled for Monday...

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State Attorneys General Call on Feds to Forgive Fraudulent Student Loans

Civil Rights Groups Call on Obama to Drop Test-Based 'Accountability' System in Schools

Demanding End to 'Toxic Testing,' Teachers Call for Duncan's Resignation

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