Participants at an upcoming invitation-only conference in the Washington DC area, entitled “Innovation and Public Private Partnership in Higher Education” (P3•EDU for short), will include Purdue University president Mitch Daniels and Graham Holdings chairman Donald Graham — fresh off the finalization of their troubling deal merging public Purdue and Graham’s for-profit Kaplan University. Also scheduled to
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Is this real life?* Since 2017, Republic Report‘s “Trump Terrible 10” has ranked the week’s 10 most disgraceful  figures in Trump world. Republic Report, which focuses on how money corrupts democracy, has met its abusive dream mate with the kleptocratic administration of President Donald J. Trump. Trump and his lieutenants personify how money and greed, mixed with disrespect
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A federal indictment unveiled Friday charges that the director of the Chicago campus of a non-profit career college conspired with five of her subordinates to defraud taxpayers of millions of dollars in federal student grants and loans. According to U.S. prosecutors, Marie Pickett, director at the Center for Employment Training’s Chicago location, and her staff obtained
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If you wake up early in the morning and type “WITCH HUNT!” into Twitter, should you keep being president? I guess maybe. If, the next morning, you call your own attorney general “DISGRACEFUL!” on Twitter, do you know what you’re doing? I guess possibly. Is Bob Mueller closing in? I FUCKING HOPE SO. Since 2017, Republic
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This week, the who’s who of right-wing celebrities are gathered at the annual CPAC conference to confront the true evils of American society — the media, climate scientists, 19 year old college kids who flirt with the ideas of equity and justice. So far, speaker after speaker has seized the opportunity to stand up for
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A former employee of a call center that pushed students into predatory for-profit colleges has initiated a blockbuster whistleblower lawsuit on behalf of taxpayers against his former employer, Utah-based EduTrek, and against numerous for-profit colleges that have used the company to recruit new students. The complaint, filed with the federal court in Utah in 2016,
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As discussions grew contentious at the Department of Education’s meetings to repeal and replace the Obama administration’s rule to protect defrauded students, an apparently exasperated for-profit college industry lawyer seemed to admit that a draft rule proposed by the Department closely matched the wish list of schools in her industry. The 2016 Obama borrower defense
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I will be announcing THE WORST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME AWARDS on Wednesday at 5:00 o’clock. Subjects will cover Dishonesty, Corruption, Bigotry, Misogyny, and Incompetence. Stay tuned! We took a holiday break, and then decided to stop publishing this feature once and for all. But then, oh lordy. It writes itself. Since 2017, Republic Report‘s “Trump Terrible
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