Education Department Remedies Troubled Grant Program; Defrauded Students To Receive Loan Forgiveness
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The Education Department hatches plan to fix troubled TEACH grant
The Education Department plans to erase debt for thousands of teachers whose TEACH grants were converted to loans, after an almost year-long NPR investigation into the troubled federal program.
For nearly 10 years, the TEACH grant has helped cover tuition for teachers-in-training â as long as they agree to teach a high-need subject,by the Education Department published earlier this year showed that nearly 12,000 educators in the program never got that money. These grants were turned to loans, with interest, due to small mistakes on the paperwork teachers filled out each year to prove that they fulfilled their end of the bargain.
