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Congressman Buck McKeon (R-CA), the Armed Services Committee chairman best known today for his unapologetic support for pork spending for military contractors, has faced a recent wave of stories concerning evidence that suggests that he has used his elected office to directly benefit himself and his family. First, the Wall Street Journal last month reported
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Corinthian Colleges CEO Jack Massimino and National Urban League CEO Marc Morial held a conference call this afternoon to announce an “Historic Educational Partnership.” Corinthian, a for-profit education company, plans to provide “approximately” $1 million for an Urban League program to help 200 students in Orlando, Florida, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to prepare for the GED exam so they
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We know from a front-page New York Times story that Mitt Romney thinks the world of for-profit colleges, especially one school whose executives have contributed money to the Romney campaign and Super PAC. But a key for-profit college trade group, APSCU, probably just ensured it will also enjoy warm relations in the event of a
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As the New York Times reports today, on the campaign trail Mitt Romney has been praising for-profit educational institutions – colleges and trade schools that operate as business corporations rather than nonprofits or state institutions. Romney said at an Iowa event in November that such schools give students lower-cost alternatives to traditional colleges. At a December town
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In a powerful legal complaint filed this month in federal court in Denver, Aidan Peters, a former admissions representative for Colorado Technical University (CTU), alleges that the for-profit, online school, owned by giant Perdoceo Education Corp., systematically deceived and abused students. One such student identified in the complaint is T.G., a woman who seemed to
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Over the holidays, a shuttered chain of predatory career colleges operated by billionaire GOP donor Carl Barney continued its seemingly endless second life as a habitual courthouse litigant. On December 24, the Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed a $3 million penalty against one of Barney’s schools, CollegeAmerica, upholding a 2020 decision by a Colorado district
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Some words of determination, hope, and gratitude for my colleagues who continue the fight to stop predatory colleges from ripping off taxpayers and ruining students’ lives: I’ve worked in DC my whole career, and I’ve had, and still have, a lot of different jobs, besides working on higher ed. But working with our coalition of
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Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the University of Virginia,  to accept a “compact” loaded with right-wing priorities. Rowan, CEO of giant Apollo Global Management, responded with a New York Times op-ed today
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