Pennsylvania Donald J. Trump for President v. Boockvar Complaint, 11-04-20, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania In re: Canvassing Observation Order denying motion, 11-03-20, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County Notice of Appeal to Commonwealth Court, 11-04-20, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar Motion Of Donald J. Trump For President,
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Betsy DeVos’s four-year effort to do the bidding of predatory for-profit colleges and trash rules to hold them accountable has had mixed results. Some awful schools seem to be thriving, while others have continued to collapse under the weight of their own bad behavior.  The next casualty may be an East Coast operation — including
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In recent months, we’ve highlighted on this site some for-profit and career colleges whose predatory abuses against students should disqualify them from eligibility for federal student grants and loans, yet the Donald Trump-Betsy DeVos education department keeps sending them millions of our tax dollars each month; Ashford University, Florida Career College, American Intercontinental/Colorado Tech, and
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Each year, the for-profit college lobby group CECU holds a November “CEO Summit,” a gathering where top industry executives take stock and address the challenges ahead. Notably, at the 2016 summit, the big speaker was former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who was both a close associate of CECU CEO Steve Gunderson, and an early supporter
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In August a Colorado state judge issued a blockbuster ruling that found systematic consumer protection abuses against students by the Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE), operator of career training schools including CollegeAmerica and Independence University. Now, based on that decision, CEHE’s accreditor, which already had placed the schools on probation, is demanding new
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In July, a Department of Education outside advisory committee, dominated by Republicans, rejected, by a 9-2 vote, an absurd and outrageous effort by Betsy DeVos aides to punish accreditor Higher Learning Commission (HLC) for its role in the meltdown of the Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH) chain of career colleges. Background: In late 2017, HLC
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This website focuses on corruption of American politics and policy, so we’ve been busy for four years. Donald Trump, with a few months left in his presidential term, is the most corrupt president in U.S. history — meaning he has, more than any predecessor, used his powerful job to advance his own financial, political, and
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In July 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump publicly called on Russia to hack the email account of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton — something that Russian intelligence operatives attempted that same day. A month earlier, Trump’s son, son-in-law, and campaign chairman had met with a Russian lawyer in Trump’s offices on the promise that
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