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My colleague David Halperin reported last week that the for-profit college division of the Washington Post Company’s Kaplan subsidiary was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for one year, ending in August 2011. He makes the case that we shouldn’t be surprised that for-profit colleges, which receive the large  majority of their
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Republic Report previously reported that former President George W. Bush will be speaking at the annual meeting of APSCU, the leading association of for-profit colleges, on June 22 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. For-profit colleges get $32 billion in student aid from your tax dollars every year, but many are marked by deceptive
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Last night, Hilary Rosen shockingly claimed that Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann Romney, “actually never worked a day in her life,” referring to Romney’s role as a stay-at-home mom. Watch her remarks: Rosen’s remarks have set off a firestorm in the media. As press outlets rushed to cover the controversy, they frequently referred to her as
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  The Washington Post Company seems on the verge of turning its flagship newspaper into a brochure for the company’s controversial, taxpayer-funded for-profit college division, Kaplan. The latest participant in this process is one of the world’s most accomplished men, Bill Gates. At a time when veterans groups, state attorneys general, and others are seeking reforms
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Corruption of our politics poses an existential threat to our republic. Can we be a self-governing nation, of the people, by the people, and for the people, or will we be ruled by special interests and big money lobbyists? Republic Report is dedicated to rooting out the corruption that is so corrosive to American values.
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Last spring, the Trump Department of Education quietly cancelled a $37.7 million fine against Grand Canyon University that resulted from a thorough investigation, during the Biden presidency, showing the school deceived numerous doctoral degree students regarding the costs of their programs. The Department falsely claimed that the Biden team persecuted Grand Canyon because the school
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Here are remarks I offered today during the public comment segment of a meeting of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI): At the February meeting, I urged you to speak up in the face of an unprecedented attack on the quality and integrity of higher education by
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At the opening of today’s meeting of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), members of the panel have just reached a tie vote on the selection of a new chair.  Zakiya Smith Ellis, a former New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education and NACIQI’s current vice chair, received
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