These are just some of the comments flooding the AFT’s offices as members call, email and tweet, giddy about the weight of student debt being lifted from their lives. They cry. They laugh. And many thank the union directly for the hard work it took to begin to fix a student loan program so broken that thousands of borrowers have been stuck under mounds of undeserved debt for decades.
The AFT settled a landmark court case against the Education Department last October and has fought for years against fraud and abuse in the student loan system.
