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Borrowers sue Education Department over closed-school student loan discharges

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Covered by 3 outlets, mostly left-leaning (67%).

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Student Defense, an advocacy group, filed a class-action lawsuit on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of student-loan borrowers whose colleges closed. The suit alleges that the Education Department has not carried out a 2025 decision that expanded closed school discharge relief, leaving borrowers with debts the plaintiffs say should be discharged. The named plaintiff, Kendrick Gaussoin, attended the Brooks Institute, which shut down in 2016. The complaint names Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the department as defendants. Business Insider says the department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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What happened

Key points

Each point shows who reports it, from Far Left to Far Right.

  1. Federal law requires the Education Department to erase the student loans of borrowers whose colleges close suddenly.

    One outletNPR· Left

  2. A new class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of student-loan borrowers whose colleges closed.

    Reported byLeft2Center1See the outletsHide the outlets
    Left
    NPR, Business Insider
    Center
    Newsweek

  3. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday by Student Defense, an advocacy group.

    Reported byLeft1Center1See the outletsHide the outlets
    Left
    Business Insider
    Center
    Newsweek

  4. The lawsuit alleges the Education Department has not carried out a 2025 decision that expanded closed school discharge relief.

    Reported byLeft2Center1See the outletsHide the outlets
    Left
    NPR, Business Insider
    Center
    Newsweek

  5. The complaint names Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the Department of Education as defendants.

    One outletNewsweek· Center

  6. The Education Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

    One outletBusiness Insider· Left

How each side tells it

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Every side reports that a class-action lawsuit filed in Washington alleges the Education Department has not granted student-loan discharges to borrowers whose colleges closed. Left coverage frames it as a government refusal and calls the denials illegal, while the center headline reports the filing and names the department.

  • the left

    2 outlets

    Left headlines center the government's refusal to erase debts; Business Insider states the denials as illegal, while NPR's headline attributes the claim to a lawsuit.

    Thousands of student-loan borrowers whose schools shut down have been illegally denied debt relief, a new lawsuit says
    Business InsiderLeftAll left-leaning headlines

  • the center

    1 outlet

    Newsweek's headline reports a new lawsuit against the department and its leader by name, without characterizing the claims.

    Student Loan Update: New Lawsuit Filed Against Trump's Education Department
    NewsweekCenterAll center headlines

  • the right

    No coverage yet

    No right-leaning outlet that Mantle follows has covered this story yet. That absence is part of the picture.

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Side by side

What each side leads with and what it leaves out. Open a side to read its headlines.

From the left

2 outlets

Leads with

  • government refusing to erase debts
  • illegal denial of debt relief
  • thousands of borrowers affected
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  • Business InsiderLeft

    Thousands of student-loan borrowers whose schools shut down have been illegally denied debt relief, a new lawsuit says

    A new lawsuit said the Trump administration is failing to use its authority to process student-debt relief for borrowers whose colleges closed.

    Read at Business Insider (opens in a new tab)
  • NPRLeft

    Their colleges closed, but the government refuses to erase their debts, lawsuit says

    Federal law requires the Education Department to erase the student loans of borrowers whose colleges close suddenly. A new lawsuit claims the department isn't fully following those rules.

    Read at NPR (opens in a new tab)

From the center

1 outlet

Leads with

  • the lawsuit filing in federal court
  • the department and Secretary McMahon as defendants
  • the 2025 expanded eligibility decision

Leaves out

  • federal law requiring the department to erase loans of borrowers whose colleges close suddenly

Reported by other sides, not found in this side’s coverage.

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From the right

0 outlets

No right-leaning outlet that Mantle follows has covered this story yet. That absence is part of the picture.

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Who reported it when

How the coverage built up

  • Left

    First to report

    NPR, Oct 29, 5:00 AM EDT

  • Center

    13 hr later

    Its first report, Oct 29, 6:03 PM EDT

  • Right

    No report yet

    From the outlets Mantle follows

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  1. NPRLeftOct 29, 5:00 AM EDT
  2. Business InsiderLeftOct 29, 10:25 AM EDT
  3. NewsweekCenterOct 29, 6:03 PM EDT

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