Students have succeeded in pushing back against efforts by the Department of Education and the for-profit college industry to halt the 2016 borrower defense rule—a set of regulations intended to protect student loan borrowers from predatory schools.

Thousands of former Corinthian students are eligible for debt cancellation. Attorneys General, Senators, and others are urging the Department of Education to cancel all Corinthian Debt once and for all.

In a report by Bloomberg last night and a subsequent court filing, the Department of Education confirmed that it will miss a key November 1 deadline to publish final borrower defense and gainful employment regulations.

In another victory for student borrowers, a federal judge late Monday vacated the Department of Education’s delays of the 2016 borrower defense rule that included critical protections for student borrowers. The ruling follows last Wednesday’s decision that the Department’s delays were illegal, and Friday’s hearing on how the Department should proceed.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Education broke the law when it delayed a rule designed to protect students defrauded by predatory for-profit colleges and career training programs, a federal district court judge ruled late Wednesday.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is calling on the Department of Education to withdraw its proposed Borrower Defense rule immediately and begin the public process again, citing documents released last week by the Project on Predatory Student Lending that show the Department’s proposed rule is based on a lie.

The new Borrower Defense Rule proposed by the Department of Education last week is based on a lie, recently published documents have shown.