Nearly a decade after Brooks Institute shut its doors in Ventura, California, a federal lawsuit claims the government is still failing borrowers like Kendrick Gaussoin, who was left with almost $22,000 in debt and no degree to show for it. Gaussoin had taken an eight-month leave from the school in December 2015 to work as a photographer, and by the time he was ready to return, the campus was gone.
The nonprofit advocacy group Student Defense filed the lawsuit in federal court against the Department of Education on behalf of Gaussoin and, the group says, potentially thousands of other borrowers, according to NPR. The suit claims the Trump administration is illegally refusing to fully follow the rules of closed-school discharge, a…