Protect Borrowers submitted the following comment in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Accountability in Higher Education and Access Through Demand-Driven Workforce Pell.
The letter expresses deep concern that ED’s proposed Workforce Pell regulations do not include sufficient guardrails to protect students from the well-documented risks of predatory actors in the short-term workforce training space. We urge ED to strengthen the proposed regulations in several critical areas to ensure that Workforce Pell Grants fund only high-quality programs and do not become a vehicle for waste, fraud, abuse or drive students into mountains of debt.
ED must ensure that oversight and approval of Workforce Pell Programs account for the well-documented history of misconduct and abuse among short-term programs.
Read the Letter: Comment to U.S. Department of Education on Workforce Pell for Short-Term Programs for AHEAD Negotiated Rulemaking