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Accreditor Stalls Bridgepoint Education Plan To Become Non-Profit
In a filing this morning with the Securities and Exchange Commission, predatory for-profit college business Bridgepoint Education discloses that on Monday the accreditor WASC Senior College and University Commission told Bridgepoint’s Ashford University that “pending the receipt and review of additional documents, they are deferring any action on the change of control application filed by
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Trump Terrible 10: Horseface Caravan Body Slam Edition
While reports of West Wing scuffling exposed Kelly, John, and Corey as the Aryan Three Stooges, and Jared’s favorite monarch continued telling tall tales about the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, POTUS took his own lying, and schoolboy insults, to new lows. America, if you go to the polls and ratify this vileness, you…
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CBS Exposé on Wozniak Coding Camp Raises Questions About Student Loans
The net is buzzing over a CBS News investigative report this morning about Woz U, the coding bootcamp fronted by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. CBS says it interviewed more than two dozen current and former Woz U students and employees, who spoke of poor quality programs and a culture of relentless high-pressure recruiting. But one
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Who Kavanaugh is Really For: Big Corporations
Brett Kavanaugh now faces a credible charge of sexual assault, as well as powerful evidence that he repeatedly lied to the Senate to conceal, among other bad deeds, his improper use of stolen documents as a Bush White House aide. Even religious conservatives and others at the grassroots who have supported Kavanaugh should take this moment
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Trump Terrible 10: Google Trump News Edition
Our heroes: Jeff Sessions, Jim Comey, Jeff Flake, Michael Cohen, Omarosa Manigault, George Will, Bill Kristol, Lanny Davis (ok maybe not), John Brennan…. WTF have you done to us, Don? Since 2017, Republic Report‘s “Trump Terrible 10” has ranked the week’s 10 most disgraceful people in Trump world. Republic Report, which focuses on how money corrupts democracy, has
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URGENT. Tell DeVos Today: Don’t Abandon Ripped-Off Students
You have until midnight ET tonight to tell Betsy DeVos what you think of her proposed obliteration of regulations issued under the Obama administration to protect students and taxpayers from abuses by predatory for-profit colleges. My colleagues have a webpage that makes it easy for you to comment, and you can speak your mind —
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Trump Terrible 10: Vile Yes Men Edition
President Don Trump is in full out-of-control control now, with General Kelly all passive-aggressive-checked-out, and grownups like McMaster and Cohn long gone. Those thriving now are the yes men and a few yes women who swiftly and disgracefully rationalize POTUS’s lies and execute his Orwellian orders. So this countdown, as usual, writes itself. Since 2017, Republic
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Leaked Recording: Dream Center Exec Blames Durbin, EDMC, Accreditors (But Not DeVos)
In a meeting with faculty and staff of the soon-to-close Chicago campus of the Illinois Art Institute — a career school that has for decades offered programs in design, fashion, marketing, culinary, film, animation, and technology — John Crowley, a top official of the school’s owner, blamed the prior corporate ownership, the school’s accreditor, state
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