The Trump administration tried to delay student loan forgiveness for nearly 180,000 borrowers. A federal court said no

The Education Department must proceed with discharging student loan forgiveness for a group of eligible borrowers in a settlement case after a recent ruling from a federal appeals court. The Friday decision marked a win for about 179,000 borrowers in the drawn-out Sweet v. McMahon settlement. In the ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected an appeal from the Department of…