An equity-busting markup of the Higher Education Act is making its way through Congress, and education advocates, outraged by the barriers it would create, are rallying against it.
“If rogue for-profit colleges and private lenders were to dream up a higher education bill that lines their own pockets at the expense of working- and middle-class students, this would be it,” wrote AFT President Randi Weingarten and United University Professions (State University of New York) President Fred Kowal in a joint statement.
