The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday sued the Rhode Island Department of Education and Providence Public Schools over a loan-forgiveness program aimed at enticing teachers of color to work in the ...

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PROVIDENCE — The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday over a loan forgiveness program aimed at hiring more teachers of color in the Providence public schools, calling it “blatant race ...

About 26 million people had already applied for relief, hoping to end years of student loan repayments. Such debt disproportionately affects people of color, who don’t have the levels of generational ...

The student loan forgiveness program is for full-time teachers of color in Providence, and is funded through a grant from a private nonprofit PROVIDENCE — The US Department of Justice is investigating ...

The U.S. Department of Justice accused Providence public schools and the Rhode Island Department of Education of “blatant race discrimination” in a lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday over a ...