Education Department removes 4 colleges from Sweet v. Cardona settlement list

Higher Ed Dive

Natalie Schwartz
September 28, 2022
Dive Brief: 
  • The U.S. Education Department removed four colleges from its list of institutions whose students stand to receive automatic debt relief under a $6 billion settlement proposal, according to court documents.
  • Last month, U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted preliminary approval of the settlement in the lawsuit Sweet v. Cardona, filed in 2019 by students who say the federal government didn’t properly handle their debt forgiveness claims after they were defrauded by their colleges. Upon final approval, around 200,000 borrowers will have their student loans forgiven.
  • In the settlement, the Education Department included a list of 150-plus colleges whose students would receive relief automatically. Alsup allowed the department to remove four on Aug. 16 that the agency said it included by mistake. The department was also allowed to add one more that it said should have been on the list originally.

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