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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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Wednesday, December 04 2013

A high school student is seeking more than $5 million in damages from standardized testing agencies College Board and ACT for allegedly selling personal information to colleges.

The Cook County, Illinois, student, about whom little else is known, filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Illinois charging that the test makers with "unfair, immoral, unjust, oppressive and unscrupulous" conduct.  More specifically, the plaintiff alleges that when test takers are asked if the agencies can "share" their personal information with others, the high schoolers are not being told that their information is in fact being sold to colleges that want to market to students.  According to news reports, the current price is about 37 or 38 cents per name.

A spokesman for ACT said it would not comment on pending litigation but that the lawsuit was a “unique instance," meaning ACT at least has not previously faced such a challenge. The College Board could not immediately say if it had ever faced such a lawsuit and would not comment on ongoing litigation, but a spokeswoman said, “as a guiding principle in all we do, the College Board takes very seriously the privacy, security and confidentiality of information entrusted to us by the students in our care.”

Source:  insidehighered.com

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