DeVos Offers a Lifeline to For-Profit Law School That Hired Her Former Adviser
The feds had cut off federal student aid to Charlotte School of Law. Then it hired Betsy DeVos’s confirmation “sherpa.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
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Early this year, Charlotte School of Law looked ready to collapse. The government had cut off the private equity-backed, for-profit law school’s access to federal student loans, determining in a review that it had violated federal law and misled students, allegations the school denied. But for a school that more than nine in 10 students borrow money to attend, the decision had the ring of a death knell.
Until Donald Trump took office.