February 28, 2024

Accreditor COE Approved Corrupt Schools. There Should Be Consequences.

Today I’m scheduled to present brief comments (3 minutes max allowed) at a meeting of NACIQI, the U.S. Department of Education’s advisory committee charged with reviewing the performance of the private accrediting agencies that oversee quality at colleges and universities. Here’s what I plan to say: In April 2020, I wrote an article about a
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February 24, 2024

Trump: Who Did An Incredible Job vs. Who Did A Horrible Job

“I’ve built a lot of buildings, and Black workers are great workers. They’ve done an incredible job,” said absurd ex-president Donald J. Trump, speaking to a group of Black Republicans in South Carolina on Friday.  I don’t know if you have noticed, but a lot of people, in Trump’s accounting, have done An Incredible Job. Often
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February 24, 2024

Letter Details Idaho Lawmakers’ Case Against U of Phoenix Deal

This article was written by Kevin Richert and originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on February 23, 2024. Kevin Richert is a senior reporter and blogger at Idaho Education News.  Republished by permission.  Here is the letter described in the article. Lawmakers should take “appropriate legal action” against the proposed University of Phoenix acquisition, an attorney for
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February 21, 2024

Appeals Court Affirms $21M Penalty for Scams by Ashford U (aka UAGC)

The California Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld $21 million in penalties against for-profit Ashford University, after a state judge found in 2022, following a trial, that the school had systematically deceived prospective students about matters including the costs of attendance, the value of Ashford degrees, and the transferability of credits. The appeals court affirmed
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February 21, 2024

A For-Profit Nursing College Is Trying To Take Root In Wisconsin. Here’s Why That’s Alarming.

More than a decade ago, a for-profit college chain opened an outpost in Milwaukee: Everest College, owned by Corinthian Colleges. Soon after, Corinthian became one of the most well-known and devastating examples of a for-profit college collapse — it shut down in 2015 mired in legal and regulatory challenges, overnight leaving about 16,000 students without
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February 16, 2024

Donald Trump Is A Criminal – All the Receipts (So Far)

Business fraud, real estate fraud, charity fraud, education fraud, tax fraud, election fraud, sedition, government corruption, classified document theft, obstruction of justice, sexual assault, conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 election, and more.  Donald J. Trump of Palm Beach, Florida, is a criminal. Here is the evidence, so far. November 2016: Donald
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February 13, 2024

For-Profit Career College of Northern Nevada Abruptly Shuts Down

Career College of Northern Nevada (CCNN) abruptly closed on Friday, replacing its website with a closure notice and literally locking students out of the building.  The company that owns the Sparks, Nevada-based for-profit school also declared bankruptcy on Friday.  In the website notice, the school directs students to a U.S. Department of Education web page that
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February 11, 2024

The Business of America is Debt

In the shoe department at Belk’s department store yesterday, a familiar thing: The sales guy was trying to convince us to get a Belk’s credit card, saying we would get a big discount on the shoes. We got to talking, and he mentioned that he was taking his first airplane flight ever in a couple
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