# US approves $6.1B borrower-defense discharge for 317,000 Art Institutes students (2024)

Date: 2024

In early May 2024 the US Department of Education, under Secretary [Miguel Cardona](/people/miguel-cardona), approved more than $6.1 billion in automatic borrower-defense loan discharges for roughly 317,000 borrowers who attended any Art Institutes campus between 2004 and 2017, after finding the chain and its parent company made pervasive misrepresentations about graduate employment rates, salaries and career services.

## Drivers

- Public Education Funding: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-public-education-funding

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## Methodology

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