Democrats asked Betsy DeVos to cancel defrauded ITT Tech students' loans. She did — 'with extreme displeasure.'

Kathryn Krawczyk
,The Week•September 30, 2019

Democrats are actually happy with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for once.

In a Monday tweet, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) delivered the result of an earlier letter she and fellow senators had written to DeVos asking her to cancel loans for defrauded ITT Technical Institute students. DeVos did grant the Democrats' request — but "with extreme displeasure," she added in the comments section.

The for-profit ITT Educational Services shuttered all of its 136 nationwide campuses in 2016, prompting the Department of Education to offer loan discharges for those who attended an ITT Tech school when it closed or shortly beforehand. But when students still had not seen those loans forgiven years later, Warren and three other Democratic senators wrote a letter to DeVos to follow up. They got their terse yet desired answer a few weeks later.

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