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At a public hearing Thursday in Orlando, Florida, executives of troubled for-profit Florida Career College (FCC) suggested that U.S. Department of Education officials might be amenable to finding an alternative to their recent decision to cut off federal student grants and loans to the school. The Department announced on April 11 that it was terminating
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Last August, the U.S. Department of Education terminated the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) as a recognized accrediting agency, in the wake of powerful evidence that ACICS had allowed a number of schools under its watch to engage in deceptive and predatory practices without facing serious consequences. The Department’s action reprised a
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The demised career college operation Center for Excellence in Higher Education, which ran Independence University and other schools, lost on nearly every issue today in a decision issued by the Colorado Supreme Court. The state high court unanimously rebuffed CEHE’s demand for a new trial of a case brought by the Colorado attorney general. In
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New data released by the U.S. Department of Education show that the two schools operated by for-profit Perdoceo Education Corp. — American Intercontinental University (AIU) and Colorado Technical University (CTU), both entirely online — continue to deliver poor results for students, with low graduation rates and graduate incomes and high levels of student debt. Coming
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The University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees is meeting Monday to vote on a proposed deal under which a non-profit entity associated with the system would acquire the for-profit University of Phoenix. Skip Rutherford, the former Dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, said Sunday that this hotly-contested decision shouldn’t
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Arthur Keiser, a Florida college operator who has received hundreds of millions in income from your tax dollars, has been aggressively litigating in the federal courts, including now at the U.S. Supreme Court, to prevent the federal government from implementing a settlement agreement that cancels the federal loans of former students of his schools who
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The U.S. Department of Education announced today it will stop providing federal student grant and loan payments to Florida Career College (FCC), a for-profit school whose predatory practices Republic Report helped expose in a May 2020 investigation. The Department explained on its website that it was acting against the school after an investigation “found that
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Arthur Keiser, billionaire operator of three Florida-based career college chains, asserts in an article published this week, “There’s no evidence of misconduct” at his schools. That claim, by one of the most powerful figures in the for-profit college industry, is demonstrably false. In reality, there is extensive evidence of misconduct at schools owned or operated
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