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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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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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Seeking dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that it abused students and defrauded taxpayers, the for-profit college company Perdoceo Education Corp. argued that a whistleblower’s allegations were stale because the same assertions were already made public — including in two articles published here on Republic Report. Unfortunately for Perdoceo, the federal judge hearing the case concluded
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About a dozen years ago, owners of some of the biggest, worst-acting for-profit colleges began concocting, with their eager, high-paid lawyers, schemes to convert their schools into non-profits.  The apparent aims were to evade the heightened government regulations applied uniquely to for-profit schools in order to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse — and to
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New York City’s ASA College, a for-profit school that lost its accreditation and closed its doors to  students in February — following scandals involving deceptive subway ads and sexual misconduct allegations against its owner — seems to be trying for a comeback. ASA College’s board chair, Frank Seddio, sent a letter dated November 1 to
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The Federal Trade Commission and the state of New Jersey have reached parallel settlements with for-profit Sollers College, under which the school has been ordered to cancel $3.4 million in student debt for about 400 students. Sollers, which has a single campus in New Jersey plus courses online, also must pay a $1.2 million civil
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On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education issued a bulletin to colleges, warning that, under federal law, they cannot prohibit employees — including ex-employees who have signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) — from talking with the Department about their schools’ handling of federal student aid. The Department’s office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) said it was
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Connecticut attorney general William Tong today sued Stone Academy, one of the many for-profit colleges that have shut down in the past year, with a complaint alleging the school promised nursing and other health care students a quality education leading to a good career, even as it cut educational spending and denied many attendees the
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