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LA Times: For-profit film school turned their Hollywood dreams into student debt nightmares
"Only two months into pursuing his dream to be a sound engineer, David Gross knew he’d made a mistake. The single father in 2013 signed up at a for-profit college in Burbank that convinced him [...]
Grand Forks Herald: Defunct Globe University, Minnesota School of Business pushed to liquidate assets and repay students
Grand Forks Herald "Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wants a now-defunct chain of for-profit colleges to liquidate its remaining assets to repay the students it defrauded. Ellison’s office filed a motion in U.S. bankruptcy court [...]
USA Today: Loophole Allows Some Colleges to Take Advantage of Veterans
Cameron Newberry always knew he wanted to go to college, but felt he needed to serve his country before jumping back to his studies. This led the 23-year-old to serve in the Marine Corps from [...]
Chicago Sun Times: More GI Bill horror stories: Vets say government reneged on promise to pay for kids’ college
"Hower and her father are among more than a dozen families who contacted the Chicago Sun-Times after a story Nov. 10 on military families hit with hefty college bills they were promised would be covered [...]
Wall Street Journal: Which College Graduates Make the Most
New government data shows which college degrees are instantly paying off and which ones leave graduates loaded with debt but skimpy income. Some of the examples are striking. Bismarck State College can now boast its business [...]
NBC News San Diego: Man Schemed Nearly $30M of Education Benefits From Veterans Affairs: US Attorney
The owner of a technical training school pleaded guilty Wednesday to defrauding nearly $30 million worth of benefits over a three-year period from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Federal authorities discovered an elaborate scheme at [...]
Chicago Sun Times: The Navy told him he served long enough to get his kids free college. Its math was 6 days off.
"Dotson, who’s from Michigan, didn’t know that the promised education would be yanked out from under them, that this gift would turn into debt-collection notices for his daughter amounting to $20,000 and growing. The Dotsons [...]
California backs down from threat to fight VA for GI Bill oversight
California backed down from a fight with the Department of Veterans Affairs over a decision that restricts the state’s power to regulate for-profit colleges enrolling students with GI Bill benefits. California had used its authority [...]
Politico: How to fix education’s racial inequalities, one tweak at a time
PASADENA—Last fall, when introductory biology professors at Pasadena City College erased a rule banning late assignments or makeup exams, their colleagues joked that students would soon have imaginary grandmas perishing every weekend. In years past, [...]
Wall Street Journal: Fight Over For-Profit Colleges’ Funding Centers on Veterans
Jose Diaz-Buttler, a trained mechanic three years removed from the Navy, was seeking steady work in the Bay Area when the 2008 financial crisis hit. After initially contacting Heald College, a nearby for-profit school, to [...]
Inside Higher Ed: Could For-Profit Question Impede Short-Term Pell?
Lawmakers pushing for a dramatic change to the federal Pell Grant program have for months sought to placate liberal critics by arguing that new money wouldn’t go to for-profit colleges. Legislation dubbed the JOBS Act [...]
NBC News: ‘They just saw me as a dollar sign’: How some certificate schools profit from vulnerable students
An investigation into Premier Education Group shows how for-profit schools with questionable track records are able to fly under the enforcement radar. Read more.
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