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Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee, has declined to schedule a hearing prior to a committee vote, set for Thursday, on President Trump’s nominee to be Under Secretary of Education, Nicholas Kent. Having encountered Kent at dozens of Department of Education public hearings over the years,
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The Donald J. Trump administration, which claims its DOGE-driven reshaping of the federal government is aimed at cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, quietly cancelled a $37 million fine that the Department of Education, under the Biden administration, imposed in 2023 on Grand Canyon University. The fine was levied after Department investigators documented extensive findings that
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Bloomberg reports that the private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Vistria Group are considering a sale or an initial public offering for the for-profit school they jointly own, the University of Phoenix. Unnamed sources told Bloomberg an IPO could occur as soon as the third quarter of 2025. For the past two years, Phoenix’s
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  A nonprofit advocacy group sued Meta this week, contending that the tech giant’s Facebook and Instagram platforms facilitate the targeting of ads for for-profit colleges to Black users, while disproportionately steering ads for public and non-profit colleges to white users. The lawsuit, filed in the District of Columbia Superior Court on behalf of the
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In 2020, the University of Arizona acquired Ashford University, an online for-profit college that a California court later found guilty of having deceived students about job prospects, transfer opportunities, and degree costs. Feeling pressured to better compete in the online education market — especially as Arizona State University broadened its virtual options — University of Arizona leaders recast
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The LinkedIn page, and X profile, of Florida’s Keiser University reported last month that on September 13 the school “hosted a public policy forum in West Palm Beach featuring discussions on safety and the economy.” But the Facebook page of Florida state Representative and state Senate candidate Randy Fine, a Republican who participated in the
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A dozen advocacy groups, including the NAACP and the Debt Collective, on Wednesday wrote to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, calling on the Biden Administration to cancel the student loan debt of borrowers who attended the for-profit Brooks Institute, which from 1999 until just before its 2016 closure was owned by for-profit giant Career
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A U.S. Department of Education advisory committee will meet August 6 to 8 for one of its twice-a-year sessions to review the performance of some of the nation’s college accrediting agencies. Members of the committee, which is called NACIQI, may end up having another public disagreement over the appropriate scope of evaluating accreditors — in
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