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For decades the U.S. Department of Education has been required by law to conduct extensive negotiated rulemaking meetings whenever it wants to issue regulations.  The ritual of stakeholders, policy nerds, and lawyers packed into a room debating the minutiae of regulatory language and data is, in some sense, an affirming exercise in open, participatory democracy,
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Beauty school students nationwide, especially those attending large, for-profit chains, often endure hosts of challenges before and after they graduate, research has shown. During school, students often sit through outdated lessons that don’t prep them for a contemporary beauty career, an experience made all the worse when they aren’t paid for their work and their
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A federal district judge in Fort Worth, TX, today rejected a challenge from the for-profit cosmetology school industry to the Department of Education’s latest version of the gainful employment rule.  This iteration of the rule, issued in 2023 under the Biden administration, will cut off federal student grants and loans to for-profit and career education
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Having failed to complete deals to sell the troubled giant for-profit University of Phoenix to major state universities in Arkansas and Idaho — after people in those states got cold feet — the school’s owner, private equity behemoth Apollo Global Management, just before the holiday weekend announced an initial public offering for the school.  Phoenix’s
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A filing in federal district court in Arizona suggests the Federal Trade Commission may be preparing to drop the 2023 lawsuit it brought against Grand Canyon Education, a case alleging that Grand Canyon University’s for-profit arm and its CEO, Brian Mueller, deceptively advertised the costs of its doctoral programs, misrepresented the non-profit status of the
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It’s a busy week for me, but I want to acknowledge, since we have focused on it here for more than two years, that the absurd deal for the University of Idaho to purchase the predatory for-profit University of Phoenix is finally dead.  That’s good news.  A wide range of Idahoans stood up against a
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St. Andrews University, a small liberal arts college in Laurinburg, North Carolina, announced today that it will close in ten days, on May 5. In a statement on the school’s website, the president, Tarun Malik, said, “we have reached a point where financial sustainability is no longer attainable.” It’s a sad day for the school’s
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Although President Donald J. Trump last month signed an executive order directing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education,” and although DOGE efforts and layoffs have cut the Department staff by half, the Department announced
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