School Accountability & Student Protections

Our Statement for the Record: House Hearing on Career Ready Student Veterans Act

Veterans Education Success (VES) appreciates the opportunity to share its perspective on the Career-Ready Student Veterans Act (H.R. 2360). VES is a non-profit organization focused on protecting the integrity and promise of the GI Bill [...]

FTC Settles with Ashworth College over Misleading Recruiting Methods

Ashworth College has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges it misrepresented to students that they would get the training and credentials needed to switch careers or get a new job, and that the course [...]

CBO Score of Closing the 90/10 Loophole

Our Statement for the Record: House hearing on veteran higher education opportunities

Veterans Education Success (VES) appreciates the opportunity to share its perspective on the topic of today’s hearing—higher education opportunities for the newest generation of veterans. VES is a non-profit organization focused on protecting the integrity [...]

New York Times: When Colleges Use Veterans as Pawns

Editorial When Colleges Use Veterans as Pawns By The Editorial Board Feb. 10, 2015 For-profit colleges that burden students with crippling debt — often while giving them useless credentials in return — are luring veterans [...]

Massachusetts Attorney General Settles with Premier Education Group’s Salter College over Misleading Recruiting Practices

BOSTON – A for-profit school will pay students $3.75 million to resolve allegations of misrepresenting job placement numbers and using deceptive enrollment tactics, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today. A total of $3.5 million will [...]

Taxpayer Funds are Lifeline for More Than 100 For-Profit Schools

"More than 100 for-profit colleges are so dependent on taxpayer money that they would be violating a law designed to prevent profiteering if not for a loophole that excludes GI Bill funds and Department of [...]

CFPB Sues For-Profit Corinthian Colleges for Predatory Lending

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sued for-profit college chain Corinthian Colleges, Inc. for its illegal predatory lending scheme. The Bureau alleges that Corinthian lured tens of thousands of students to [...]

NYT: Corinthian College Shut Down by Education Department. Had claimed to be Pentagon-approved

Facing heavy losses and a crackdown by government agencies, Corinthian Colleges, one of the largest for-profit operators of trade schools and colleges, will largely cease operating under an agreement with the federal Education Department.

City Attorney of San Francisco Settles with EDMC’s Art Institutes over Use of Illegal Marketing Practices

The California Art Institute, a for-profit school with campuses up and down the state, will offer scholarships and tighten its student-recruitment practices in a $4.4 million settlement between the school's parent company and San Francisco, [...]

Florida Attorney General Settles with Kaplan over Misleading Recruiting Practices

PURSUANT to the provisions of Chapter 501, Part II of the Florida Statutes, Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, the OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AFFAIRS (hereinafter referred to as the [...]

Iowa Attorney General Settles with Bridgepoint’s Ashford College over Misleading Recruiting Practices

(DES MOINES, Iowa) Ashford University and San Diego-based parent company Bridgepoint Education Inc. have agreed to a $7.25 million dollar payment and are required to change certain recruitment and enrollment practices after Attorney General Tom [...]