[2020 Election]
BSN: “On Thursday, the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic and its historic ill effects and disruption to multiple facets of American life hung over the debate like a dark storm cloud.”
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Student Debt
Biden vs. Trump: 10 Questions That Should’ve Been Asked During Thursday’s Presidential Debate
NEW YORK SUSPENDS STUDENT, MEDICAL DEBT DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
[COVID-19\Student\Medical Debt]
James: “New Yorkers need to focus on keeping themselves safe and healthy from the coronavirus, and therefore can rest assured that state medical and student debt referred to my office will not be collected against them for at least 30 days.”
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DEMOCRATS CALL EDUCATION SECRETARY DEVOS’ DEBT RELIEF FORMULA FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS “NONSENSICAL”
[Education\Studen Debt]
“This Administration’s pursuit of a partial relief formula…we fear will result in defaulted borrowers continuing to be saddled with debt that predatory colleges mislead them into incurring.”
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HOUSE DEMOCRATS DENOUNCE BETSY DEVOS’ DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION “BORROWERS DEFENSE RULE”
[Department of Education\”Borrower’s Defense Rule”]
Rep. Scott: “Instead of maintaining the Obama-era Borrower Defense rule, which provides a fair and streamlined process to provide debt relief to defrauded students, the Department of Education has finalized a new Borrower Defense rule that prevents an overwhelming majority of defrauded students from getting relief they deserve.”
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PUBLIC EDUCATION GROUPS TO HOST TOP DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AT 2020 PUBLIC EDUCATION FORUM
[Education\Public Education Forum]
The forum will welcome more than 1,000 educators, students, parents and community members to a discussion with the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates about their plans for K-12 and higher education. Each candidate will provide opening remarks and then answer questions from Velshi and Ellis, forum attendees and others from across the country who submitted questions.
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2020 DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE CASTRO WILL JOIN AFT PRESIDENT WEINGARTEN AT LAS VEGAS TOWN HALL
[2020 Presidential Election]
On Wednesday, Oct. 2, Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro will join AFT President Randi Weingarten at an AFT Votes town hall in Nevada.
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