Cardona won’t commit to barring illegal campus protesters from student loan forgiveness
By
Breccan F. Thies
May 7, 2024 12:21 pm
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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona refused on Tuesday to commit to barring pro-Palestinian student protesters who harassed or intimidated others from having their federal student loans canceled.
Cardona testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, covering a variety of contentious topics regarding the Department of Education, including campus antisemitism, the botched Free Application for Federal Student Aid rollout, the controversial Title IX overhaul, and the student loan debt transfer scheme.
“You’ve been proudly volunteering the taxpayers to take on the student loan debt of largely wealthy college graduates,” committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) told Cardona. “Do you believe that students who spend their time in college calling for the destruction of an ethnic or religious group, or spend their time preventing students of particular ethnic or religious groups from walking around campus freely, or spending time occupying campus buildings, deserve to have their education paid for by taxpayers?”
Cardona would not commit to blocking students from accessing the taxpayer debt transfer scheme but said that “students who are breaking the law and are disrupting the educational environment should be held to account.”
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