Ed Dept. forgave $17.2B in pupil loans, report finds

The Division of Schooling had forgiven $17.2 billion in federal pupil loans for practically 975,000 debtors as of April 30, by a program that enables debtors to hunt reduction in the event that they’ve been misled or defrauded by their faculty, the U.S. Authorities Accountability Workplace discovered in a report launched Thursday. Beneath the borrower protection to…