There has also been mention of plans to end public access to its online consumer complaints database where
complaints against student loan companies are found.
If you don't believe me, just go ahead and file
a complaint against your student loan servicer and see how much protection you get.
Not exact matches
The Brooklyn - based attorney was in the news two years ago for filing
complaints against New York City schools for actions taken
against female
students who'd alleged sexual attacks by male
students.
She and 22 other Columbia
students have filed a Title IX
complaint against Columbia for improperly handling accusations of sexual assault, but now Sulkowicz is going one step further to draw attention to the case.
On Wed., Jan. 20th, parents of 13
students, along with Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James, City Council Education Committee Chairperson Daniel Dromm and five legal assistance nonprofits, filed a federal civil rights
complaint against Success Academy for systemic practices that violate the rights of children with disabilities.
Schenectady City Schools Superintendent Laurence Spring has filed a federal
complaint that argues the state's aid formula discriminates
against poor and minority
students.
But last week, after extensive coverage in the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper and criticism from its own faculty about its handling of the case, it launched an official investigation into the original allegations: that a leading professor there, astrophysicist Marcella Carollo, mistreated graduate
students for more than a decade, while the administration ignored
complaints against her.
Federal civil - rights officials are weighing a
complaint that the test all Texas
students must pass to get a high school diploma unfairly discriminates
against minority youths.
Katie Sierra, a sophomore at the 700 -
student Sissonville High School near Charleston, filed a
complaint against the school board after she was suspended for three days last month for attempting to form the club
against the wishes of school administrators.
The study was required by the department's office for civil rights in return for dropping a
complaint against the district's program for language - minority
students.
Public Advocates joined the American Civil Liberties Union in filing a
complaint last year
against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing the giant district of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged
students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for
students with disabilities.
For sure, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights should respond to specific
complaints of discrimination
against students, including when it comes to discipline.
Cohen, from the Southern Poverty Law Center, says the OCR quickly resolved his group's
complaint against the state of Georgia for failing to identify black
students who may be learning - disabled.
Two companies have settled a
complaint brought
against them by the Federal Trade Commission that they sold personal information about high school
students to commercial marketers, without first warning pupils that private businesses would get that data.
The typical
complaints lodged
against elected school boards are that no one person is in charge of the schools and that board members are often concerned more with advancing their own political careers than tending to the
students» educational needs.
If allegations arise
against an employee who is certified under s. 1012.56 and employed in an educator - certificated position in any public school, charter school or governing board thereof, or private school that accepts scholarship
students under s. 1002.39 or s. 1002.395, the school shall file in writing with the department a legally sufficient
complaint within 30 days after the date on which the subject matter of the
complaint came to the attention of the school.
The move came four months after the office ruled
against the scandal - plagued Agora Cyber Charter School in a
complaint from families of its
students over illegal sharing of
student data with K - 12 Inc., and other contractors.
UMW Feminists United File Title IX
Complaint Against University: Education
Students Cite Threats To Rape, Murder
«In response to an October 2013
complaint filed by the Center for Children's Advocacy
against the district, the state conducted an investigation and determined that the district violated its obligations to
students under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and state law.
As I chronicled here, the district was caught flat - footed earlier this year when a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing
students revealed that, under the terms of a contract negotiated with United Teachers Los Angeles (the local union),
complaints against educators that don't result in disciplinary action are disregarded after only a few years (unsurprisingly, the teacher in question had a long paper trail).
This is the office that takes
complaints from parents who say their children are being discriminated
against for their disability, and from
students who claim that their university's process for investigating campus sexual assault fails to meet Title IX requirements.
Civil libertarians like Robert Shibley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education argue that these «systemic» investigations improperly required colleges to revisit other
complaints resolved long ago, potentially leading to colleges overturning not guilty verdicts
against students accused of harassment or assault.
Instead, school officials will notify parents of the absences and warn them of the consequences, which could be a fine or a loss of driving privileges if the
student racks up more absences or a criminal
complaint against the parents.
Although typically brought up in discussions about unequal opportunities in women's athletics, the law also requires that schools have a Title IX coordinator to handle
complaints and address concerns if related issues arise, and that they have policies in place to combat sexual harassment as well as discrimination
against pregnant
students.
PURE has an ongoing discrimination
complaint against CPS's
student promotion policy.
(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the
complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such
complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such
complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such
complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States
against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or
students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.
«Borrower
Complaints Mount
Against Company That Handles Billing For MEFA
Student Loans,» Channel 4 News Boston, WBZ / CBS Local, October 3, 2016
In addition, we reported the total number of
complaints made
against each servicer for federal
student loans, private
student loans, and both combined.
In total, there were 177,293
complaints - 5,344 of which were made
against student loan servicers.
Another interesting statistic that we found is that, despite private
student loans making up only around 10 % of the total
student loan market, 42 % of all
complaints against servicers were made regarding private
student loans.
The following table shows the
complaints made
against each servicer regarding all types of
student loans - both federal and private.
National Consumer Law Center v. U.S. Department of Education, April 19, 2018,
Complaint and Press Release The National Consumer Law Center filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts
against the U.S. Department of Education for records related to its purported justification for delaying implementation of a rule to protect
student loan borrowers from school fraud and abuse, including records of communications between agency officials and representatives of the for - profit college industry.
Featured below is a table that displays the three most common
complaints made
against MOHELA and how many of those
complaints are related to either federal or private
student loans.
With the help of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) database, The
Student Loan Report was able to find out how many complaints were filed against each of the nine student loan servicers that handle federal and private
Student Loan Report was able to find out how many
complaints were filed
against each of the nine
student loan servicers that handle federal and private
student loan servicers that handle federal and private loans.
The following table indicates the three most common
complaints made
against Granite State and how many of those
complaints are related to either federal or private
student loans.
In the table below you will find the three most common
complaints made
against OSLA Servicing and how many of those
complaints are related to either federal or private
student loans.
The table below features the five most common
complaints made
against student loan servicers for private
student loans only and how many times each
complaint has been filed in 2017.
The following table displays the three most common
complaints made
against Nelnet and how many of those
complaints are related to either federal or private
student loans.
The table below highlights the three most common
complaints made
against Great Lakes and how many of those
complaints are related to either federal or private
student loans.
Below you will find the three most common
complaints made
against Navient and how many of those
complaints are related to either federal or private
student loans.
After the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received over 1,000
complaints against Navient from Pennsylvania residents, the state's Attorney General Josh Shapiro recently filed a lawsuit
against the largest
student loan servicer in the country.
BBB cited 197
complaints made
against Strategic
Student Solutions, 11 complaints that failed to get a response from the student loan company, and 33 unresolved complaints as the reasons why Strategic Student Solutions received such a poor
Student Solutions, 11
complaints that failed to get a response from the
student loan company, and 33 unresolved complaints as the reasons why Strategic Student Solutions received such a poor
student loan company, and 33 unresolved
complaints as the reasons why Strategic
Student Solutions received such a poor
Student Solutions received such a poor grade.
In 2016, the CFPB compiled almost 1,000
complaints against private
student loan lenders.
✔️ Over 1,000,000 consumer
complaints have been handled by the CFPB, including thousands
against student loan servicing companies.
Restricting schools that participate in the federal
student loan program from using abusive arbitration clauses (also known as «rip - off clauses») and class action bans to silence
students»
complaints, force
students to «go it alone» with any claims they have
against their school, and keep
students» fraud claims
against schools out of court;
Specifically, the Inspector General found that the Department's Federal
Student Aid office failed to monitor borrower
complaints against its collection agencies and it neglected to take corrective action
against those agencies when they did not improve.
The
Student Judicial Committee may also consider
complaints that are not delineated under Category A or Category B above, provided that the person
against whom the
complaint is made is notified in writing as to whether the proceeding will follow the rules of Category A or Category B, delineated below.
What articling
student is going to make a
complaint against their principal and jeopardize their job, their ability to be called to the bar and possibly their future?
University of Ottawa Law
Students and CIPPIC File Privacy
Complaint Against Facebook (June 2, 2008)-- Slaw.ca
The hearing - impaired
student has filed a
complaint against the University with the provincial Human Rights Commission.