The National Student Legal Defense Network (NSLDN) issued a statement responding to the Department of Education’s announcement that it would begin discharging the loans of students who attended schools that closed. NSLDN...
On December 11, 2018, NSLDN submitted a FOIA request to the Department of Education seeking records relating to “composite scores” of institutions of higher education participating in the federal student...
The National Student Legal Defense Network (NSLDN) and Edelman Combs Latturner & Goodwin, LLC this week filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of students who were misled by the Dream...
On December 6, 2018, NSLDN submitted a FOIA request to the United States Department of Education seeking all administrative subpoenas issued by the Secretary of Education, or the Secretary’s delegee,...
On December 4, 2018, NSLDN submitted two FOIA requests to the United States Department of Education seeking documents related to the “regular and substantive interaction” requirement for distance education programs...
Washington, D.C. – Today the National Student Legal Defense Network (NSLDN), on behalf of an individual student borrower, filed a lawsuit demanding that the Department of Education stop more than...
Washington, D.C. - Today the National Student Legal Defense Network (NSLDN), on behalf of Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA), filed a lawsuit demanding that the Department of Education immediately...
Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Student Legal Defense Network (NSLDN) published an outline of oversight activity that the new, Democratic-controlled House of Representatives can pursue to better protect student...
October 23, 2018 - Today, NSLDN’s Vice President and Chief Counsel Dan Zibel appeared before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit to argue a case that may...
On October 1, 2018, NSLDN submitted two FOIA requests seeking all communications between the U.S. Department of Education and non-governmental third parties about the 2018 Borrower Defense and Gainful Employment...
On September 26, 2018 NSLDN submitted a FOIA request seeking the prepared remarks of Diane Auer Jones, who is delegated to perform the duties of Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education,...
On December 12, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education terminated recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (“ACICS”) after finding that the accreditor was pervasively noncompliant with...
On March 26, 2018, NSLDN submitted a FOIA request to the U.S. Department of Education for (i) copies of all data/information requests submitted by members of the 2017-2018 Borrower Defense...
On Monday September 10, 2018, NSLDN, together with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Center for Responsible Lending filed a brief in the U.S. District Court...