San Francisco and Santa Clara County have joined a national coalition of cities, labor unions, and nonprofit groups in suing the U.S. Department of Education, accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of illegally altering a federal student loan forgiveness program to target public service employers it politically opposes.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court, challenges a new rule that would allow the U.S. Department of Education to disqualify government and nonprofit employers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness, or PSLF program, if they do not align with the administration’s policies.
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