“The law says the secretary shall not approve GI bill enrollment at schools that use deceptive recruiting,” says Carrie Wofford with Veterans Education Success, an advocacy group. “It feels like yet another blow to veterans and students in order to help predatory for-profit colleges that keep getting caught by federal and state law enforcement for breaking the law.”
Tasha Berkhalter lost all her GI Bill money, and went in to debt, at ITT Tech in Indiana. Berkhalter says not enough has been done to help veterans like her. “We always say in the military that you leave no soldier behind and I definitely feel left behind, by my president, by my government,” Berkhalter said.
Read the full story by NPR, “Trump Administration Clears For-Profit Colleges To Register Veterans Again” published July 16, 2020.