October 31, 2024

Carl Barney, Ex-Owner of Deceptive For-Profit Colleges, Donates Big to Trump

Carl Barney, the ultra-wealthy former owner of a chain of collapsed for-profit colleges, is the third biggest California-based donor to efforts to elect Donald Trump in 2024, the Los Angeles Times reports today. Barney has donated $924,600 to the Trump 47 Committee, according to federal records. Like Donald Trump, who in 2016 paid $25 million
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October 30, 2024

DeVos Funnels $250k to Musk’s Pro-Trump Super PAC

Billionaire Betsy DeVos, who resigned from her job as Donald Trump’s secretary of education over Trump’s incitement of the deadly January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, has donated $250,000 to America PAC, the pro-Trump super PAC created by the world’s richest man, industrialist Elon Musk. The contribution was disclosed in a Federal Election Commission
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October 27, 2024

Cancel Your Washington Post Subscription

With American democracy on the line in just a few days, of course people opposed to Donald Trump are wasting time fighting with each other on social media this weekend. This time it’s about whether folks should cancel their subscriptions to the Washington Post in the wake of that paper’s decision to spike an editorial
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October 9, 2024

Non-Profit Keiser University Holds Partisan Event in Run-Up to Election

The LinkedIn page, and X profile, of Florida’s Keiser University reported last month that on September 13 the school “hosted a public policy forum in West Palm Beach featuring discussions on safety and the economy.” But the Facebook page of Florida state Representative and state Senate candidate Randy Fine, a Republican who participated in the
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October 8, 2024

GOP Attorneys General Shop for Judges in Effort to Crush Student Loan Debtors

When a federal trial judge in St. Louis issued an order last week blocking the latest Biden-Harris administration student loan relief plan, the Republican state attorneys general who filed the case gleefully celebrated yet another court victory over Americans struggling to pay their college debts. But those GOP AGs apparently don’t want to discuss the
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September 5, 2024

The Reason Judge Merchan Should Send Donald Trump to Prison

New York state trial judge Juan Merchan is scheduled to sentence Donald Trump on September 18, after the former president’s May 30 conviction by a jury of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Judge Merchan could decide to delay the sentence pending legal proceedings regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision
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August 28, 2024

2U’s Bankruptcy Bonanza: Executives Pocket Millions in Bonuses

Last month, 2U declared bankruptcy. The company was once ascendant among online program managers, or OPMs, companies that design and market virtual curricula for colleges while pocketing a significant share of tuition revenue. But enrollment in its programs plummeted for years, spurring the bankruptcy deal that still requires court approval. 2U was aware of its
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August 22, 2024

Department of Education Opens Trove of Reports on College Abuses

Last week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) took some long-overdue steps toward sharing with the public critical information about its dealings with troubled colleges. One new web page provides details on the Department’s Program Participation Agreements with schools, the contracts that set out the terms for eligibility for federal
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