DeVos Fills Sole Student Slot on Outside Advisory Panel With A Former Aide
Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos has appointed, as the sole student representative on a key Department of Education outside advisory committee, a Michigan law student who until recently worked at the Department as a confidential assistant to DeVos’s top higher education aide, Diane Auer Jones. The advisory body, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality
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Blue Shield of California Is Steering Employees to College Sued by California for Fraud
On Tuesday, Blue Shield of California announced a new partnership with California-based for-profit education provider Zovio — a deal that offers employees of the non-profit health insurance company opportunities to attend Ashford University, a college formerly owned by, and now serviced by, Zovio. According to a press release, under the deal “full-time Blue Shield employees
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For-Profit College Lobbyist Desperately Sought Face Time With DeVos
Over three years, the for-profit college industry has gotten almost everything it has wanted from the Trump administration — the cancellation of Obama-era regulations aimed at holding poorly-performing and deceptive colleges accountable, a dramatic scaling-down of enforcement efforts to crack down on fraud and abuse, the deep-freeze or rejection of thousands of claims by ripped-off
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Oil Execs Threaten Sanders, Biden, and Warren In the Most Arrogant Way Possible
In a full-page advertisement in the New York Times today, the CEOs of about 50 oil and gas companies attack Democratic contenders Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren for criticizing executives from their industry. “Sen. Bernie Sanders,” their ad proclaims, “calls oil and natural gas executives criminal. Vice Pres. Joe Biden wants us in
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FBI Raids For-Profit College Owned By Tennessee State Senator
The FBI executed a search warrant Friday at The Healthcare Institute, a Memphis for-profit college owned by Tennessee state senator Katrina Robinson (D), according to numerous media reports. The FBI also searched Robinson’s home. Witnesses saw FBI agents removing file cabinets, boxes, and computers from the school. Students told TV channel FOX13 that agents asked
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This Is A National Emergency
This is a national emergency. The constitutional republic established in 1789, and the rule of law, is under attack by the President of the United States. This President was impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of office, pressuring Ukraine to help him cheat in 2020 election, and obstruction of Congress. Before that, the
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Introducing Perdoceo: Under DeVos, Predatory Practices Pay
On January 2, Career Education Corporation (CEC) changed its name to Perdoceo, thus becoming the latest big for-profit college business to shed a name associated with predatory misconduct and switch to a pharmaceutical name. (Previous examples: Zovio, Adtalem.) Today, on a quarterly investor call, Perdoceo CEO Todd Nelson bragged of increased company revenues. Trump education
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Student Advocates Again Challenge DeVos in Court For Trashing Obama-Era Rules
Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos has trashed two key rules that the Department of Education, during the Obama administration, painstakingly developed to discourage for-profit colleges from deceiving and abusing their own students. With a new lawsuit filed today, advocates for students are now in court fighting to cancel both of the DeVos anti-rules and keep
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