School Accountability & Student Protections

U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing: Defense Department Actions Concerning Voluntary Education Programs

  VES Letter to Senators McCain and Reed   Veterans & Military organizations' 2013 public comment on Defense Department Voluntary Education MOU

Our Testimony before the Evidence-Based Policy Commission

The Post-9/11 GI Bill is America’s chief way of saying, “Thank you” to the men and women whosacrifice their bodies and their time to serve and protect our country. And it’s not just a thanks. [...]

Philadelphia Inquirer: ITT schools have been ripping off students and saddling them with debt for years

For decades, ITT Technical Institutes had a sweet deal: It gobbled up billions in federal student grants and loans in exchange for promised results that it rarely, if ever, produced. Finally, the Department of Education [...]

Indianapolis Business Journal: ITT Missteps Sowed Its Fate

Almost anyone under attack reflexively attacks back. And so it was on Sept. 6, the day top executives of ITT Educational Services announced they were closing their 136 ITT Technical Institutes, shuttering a pioneer in [...]

St. Louis Post Dispatch: Opinion: Closing ITT Tech Helps Stop For-Profit Colleges from Shaking Down Students

Some for-profit colleges came to be a curse on the very students they were in business to help, doing little more than exploiting students for their federal grants, loans and veterans benefits while failing to [...]

New York Times: Late to the Fight Against Predator Schools

The federal government’s failure over decades to regulate for-profit colleges freed the schools to prey on veterans, minorities and the poor by saddling students with crushing debt and giving them worthless degrees in return. This [...]

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Settlements Totaling $4.29 Million With For-Profit School And Its Former Chief Operating Officer

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Brian Hickey, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Education (“USDOE”), Office of Inspector General’s Northeast Region (“OIG”), announced [...]

U.S. Investigates Bridgepoint Over Its Use of Federal Student Aid

Bridgepoint Education Inc., the for-profit owner of Ashford University, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over claims that it “may have misstated Title IV refund revenue or overstated revenue associated with private [...]

NACIQI Votes to Terminate the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools

Press Release: Veterans and Advocates Join Sen. Carper on Capitol Hill, Urge Congress to Close “90/10 Loophole”

June 22, 2016 For Immediate Release Contact: Carrie Wofford Veterans and Advocates Join Sen. Carper on Capitol Hill, Urge Congress to Close “90/10 Loophole” Closing loophole would protect G.I Bill funds and service members’ education [...]

Department of Education Recommends Eliminating the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools

Education Dept Order: ITT Educational Services Inc. must increase its financial cushion to $123.7 million from $79.7 million

Dear Mr. Modany, On August 19, 2014, ITT Educational Services, Inc. (ITT) was cited in a letter by the Department of Education (Department) for late submission of its annual compliance audits and financial statements.