DeVos to Give Free Pass to Student Loan Debt Collectors, Servicers
WASHINGTON, DC - A recent Bloomberg news article is reporting that the U.S. Department of Education may issue a proposal that would prohibit state law from regulating servicers and student loan debt collectors. Such a move would be an aggressive form of preemption of state laws by the Trump Administration and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. An alternative view held by 26 state attorneys general (AGs) was also shared last fall with Secretary DeVos, that clarified the rights of states to enforce their own laws, along with federal statutes, like the Higher Education Act, that narrowly limit