May 17, 2021 at 12:06 PM
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The hits just keep on coming for Florida Coastal School of Law.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Education terminated the school’s access to federal student financial aid (for the second time, the first time being in 2019) for what the school characterizes as a breach of policy that requires a signature from a school investor. (Florida Coastal says that was held up because of its efforts to convert to a nonprofit institution.) Additionally, the law school was directed to file a teach-out plan with the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. ABA Rule 29 requires this step if the Department of Education initiates an emergency action against a law school. However, that plan was rejected after review by the executive committee of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
South Florida Democrats stand with Israel amid fighting with Hamas
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MIAMI – The intense aerial exchanges between Israel and Hamas continued on Friday in the Gaza Strip. The official death toll rose to more than 120.
Hamas has been firing rockets toward Israel since Monday. The Israeli military’s swift response included the deployment of warplanes.
Israel announced the latest mission was to destroy a network of tunnels that the jihadists use in the northern Gaza Strip.
Palestinians inspect their destroyed houses following overnight Israeli airstrikes in town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
“I was devastated, but not shocked, really, second-year FCSL student Morgan Osborn said. Author: Haley Harrison Updated: 7:03 AM EDT May 15, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. After the federal government has cut off student aid at Jacksonville’s Florida Coastal School of Law (FCSL), the school responded disputing the claim that it hadn’t met standards for financial responsibility.
The U.S. Education Department said Thursday it had rejected the school’s request to reinstate a contract for participation in federal student aid programs that expired March 31.
“Florida Coastal School of Law operated recklessly and irresponsibly, putting its students at financial risk rather than providing the opportunities they were seeking,” Richard Cordray, the department’s new chief of federal student aid, said in a news release about the decision.
Florida Coastal School of Law will appeal a U.S. Education Department decision to end federal student aid to its students, the college’s president said in a release emailed Friday night.
“[T]hey called us reckless and irresponsible with the students’ futures which could not be further from the truth,” said Peter Goplerud, who is also dean of the Jacksonville-based for-profit law school. “Our students are the sole focus of everything we are doing and always have been.”
The Education Department said Thursday it had denied the school’s request to renew a contract for student aid that expired March 31.