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Libsack says she's now feeling "hopeful" because her government finally listened. "For me, as a teacher, it's awesome," she says, "because then I can convey that to the students and say, 'Hey, you do have a voice. You are citizens. You do have a role in o

Teachers Begin To See Unfair Student Loans Disappear

10:06pm May 03, 2019

The Department of Education is expanding a fix to its troubled TEACH Grant program, giving millions of dollars of grant money back to public school teachers working in the country's neediest schools.

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Exclusive: Ed Department To Erase Debts Of Teachers, Fix Troubled Grant Program

7:55pm December 09, 2018

The move follows an NPR investigation that found thousands of teachers had grants unfairly converted to loans.

Senators To DeVos On TEACH Grant Debacle: 'Urgent That These Mistakes Are Fixed'

11:38am July 02, 2018

New documents obtained by NPR show that nearly 11,000 TEACH recipients may have lost their grants because of mistakes by the loan servicer, but only a small fraction of the problems were ever fixed.

Kaitlyn McCollum teaches at Columbia Central High School in Tennessee. After being told her TEACH grant paperwork was late, her grants were converted to loans. "I'm on the phone in between classes ... trying to get all of this information together, crying

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Education Department Launches 'Top-To-Bottom' Review Of Teachers' Grant Program

1:05pm May 22, 2018

Public school teachers across the country say they've been improperly hit with thousands of dollars in debt when paperwork errors turned their grants into loans that they're now supposed to pay back.

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