Tens of thousands of students who attended Corinthian College programs in California and online will be able to obtain debt relief, following a finding that the programs lied about their job-placement rates.
The finding, by the U.S. Department of Education and the California attorney general’s office, means that students who attended a WyoTech and Everest College program in California or an Everest online program between 2010 and 2013 won’t have to prove that they had been defrauded by the defunct for-profit college to receive loan forgiveness. Instead, they’ll simply need to show they attended a program covered by the agencies’ investigation.
Officials of the two agencies said the finding will allow the department to provide relief to more Corinthian students, more efficiently. The 85,000 WyoTech and Everest students join roughly 40,000 former students of Heald College campuses who are already eligible for an automatic loan discharge.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Agencies-Finding-Eases-Path/234243