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Ben Nelson, an intern with the crowd-sourced political transparency website LittleSis, has an interesting look at two donors to Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney super PAC. Nelson notes that the donors used third party corporate entities and foundations to donate hundreds of thousands to the group. Roderick Aycox, one of the donors, is head of
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When asked about his plan for higher education, Mitt Romney has taken to endorsing the for-profit higher education industry, even singling out a specific college business, Full Sail University. When speaking with a local newspaper before the Iowa caucus, he volunteered Full Sail and other for-profit colleges as an answer to the rising costs of
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As Ricksanity intensifies, Mitt Romney’s upstart challenger, Rick Santorum, appears ready to compete on yet another plane. Call it the For-Profit College Primary, with no delegates but lots of campaign cash up for grabs. Romney certainly has staked his claim to be the For-Profit Education President. He has gushed on the campaign trail about for-profit
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Last night, Mitt Romney’s campaign raised an estimated $1 million from a “policy” fundraiser in Washington DC. Attendees paid at least $10,000 each to hobnob with the men and women helping to write Romney’s policy plans (view an invitation here). The behind closed doors event has been assailed by the press already for featuring a
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Yesterday, Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI) endorsed Mitt Romney for President, just ahead of the Michigan Republican primary. The announcement — which can be found here on the Romney website — omits an important, yet behind the scenes detail. The morning of the announcement, Ben Ginsberg, an attorney with the mega-lobbying firm Patton Boggs hosted a
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Mitt Romney, who has declared his admiration for for-profit colleges while receiving donations from for-profit education executives, boasts as a top education advisor a former George Bush official whose decisions in government helped unleash a decade of waste, fraud, and abuse by the for-profit college industry. Politico posted this invitation to a “POLICY ROUNDTABLE MEETING AND
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As the New York Times reports today, on the campaign trail Mitt Romney has been praising for-profit educational institutions – colleges and trade schools that operate as business corporations rather than nonprofits or state institutions. Romney said at an Iowa event in November that such schools give students lower-cost alternatives to traditional colleges. At a December town
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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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