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Nearly 650 former Wisconsin students of a shuttered for-profit college chain will have about $5.8 million in debt forgiven, the Wisconsin Department of Justice announced.

Wisconsin’s agreement — part of a 43-state, $168 million agreement for more than 22,000 former ITT Technical Institute students — comes about three years after the failed for-profit college filed for bankruptcy in 2016 after several investigations were opened and the U.S. Department of Education restricted ITT’s access to federal student aid.

The state agency responsible for regulating for-profit colleges said that at the time the company closed, about 300 Wisconsin students were enrolled in ITT programs — 41 attended its Madison campus, 250 went to a campus in Greenfield and 26 were taking online courses.

The state’s agreement, announced Monday, is with Student CU Connect, which offered high-interest loans to finance students’ tuition.

“Students working to earn a degree should never be subject to deceptive, misleading, or abusive practices from the school they’re attending,” Attorney General Josh Kaul said in the announcement.