DeVos Allows Career Programs to Delay Disclosure to Students

July 3, 2017
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Two weeks after announcing a regulatory rewrite of the gainful-employment rule for nondegree career education programs, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced late Friday that she was delaying key provisions of the existing rule.

The department will give those programs until July 2018 to disclose information such as graduate employment rates or debt levels to prospective students, a year later than originally scheduled. And it will also extend a deadline to file alternate earnings appeals, citing a Wednesday court order in a lawsuit brought by cosmetology schools.

Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/07/03/education-department-announces-new-delays-gainful-employment