HONOLULU — Hawaii joined a coalition of states on Tuesday demanding U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stop the rollback of critical protections for student loan borrowers. ADVERTISING HONOLULU — Hawaii joined a coalition of states on Tuesday demanding
HONOLULU — Hawaii joined a coalition of states on Tuesday demanding U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stop the rollback of critical protections for student loan borrowers.
“The U.S. Department of Education is supposed to be helping American students obtain a legitimate education that won’t financially cripple them,” said Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin and Steve Levins, executive director of the Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection, in a joint statement. “Instead, inexplicably, its actions are punishing students and benefiting predatory lenders. This must stop.”
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro took the lead on the letter to DeVos and was joined by 18 other states and the District of Columbia, challenging the department’s August decision to end two memoranda of understanding it had with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Joining Hawaii and Pennsylvania in Tuesday’s letter were California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.
