About 3,500 Massachusetts borrowers who attended for-profit school system The Art Institutes will see a total $80 million in student debt relief under a new plan jointly announced by the Biden administration and Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell Wednesday morning.
Many of the Massachusetts borrowers eligible for loan relief attended The New England Institute of Art in Brookline, which closed in 2017. The legal action taken by officials in Massachusetts, along with their counterparts in Iowa and Pennsylvania, laid the groundwork for the federal debt cancellation plan involving Art Institutes students nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
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