School Accountability & Student Protections

2013 New York Attorney General Settlement with Career Education Corporation

Testimony of Holly Petraeus before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs

Testimony of Hollister K. Petraeus Assistant Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Office of Servicemember Affairs Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs July 31, 2013 Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member Burr, and distinguished Members of [...]

PBS Frontline: For-Profit Colleges Under Scrutiny, Again

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/for-profit-colleges-under-scrutiny-again/

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security/Govt Affairs: The 90/10 Rule: Improving Educational Outcomes for our Military and Veterans

Today's hearing focuses on the considerable investments taxpayers are making in providing high quality education benefits to our service members and veterans. In examining this issue, the committee is asking the question: are we getting [...]

Former DeVry military recruiter/whistleblower testimony

Chris Neiweem, a former DeVry military recruiter, testified before the US Senate Committee on Defense Appropriations for its hearing on the Defense Department's Voluntary Education programs. The full hearing link is here (https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/hearing-on-voluntary-military-education-programs) Chris Neiweem's [...]

Doonesbury Comic Strip on For-Profit Colleges

U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions: For Profit Higher Education: The Failure to Safeguard the Federal Investment and Ensure Student Success

Between June 2010 and July 2012, Senate HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin conducted an in-depth oversight investigation focusing exclusively on the for-profit sector of higher education. Theinvestigation was undertaken to better understand the enormous growth [...]

SEC: GiBill.Com | Full Legal Settlement, QuinStreet

This Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (“AVC”) is entered into by the Attorneys General of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, [...]

States’ Attorneys General Action A Victory for Veterans and the GI Bill

WASHINGTON – Officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs applauded a decision by the attorneys general of several states to give VA the rights to use the GIBill.Com website, after the website’s original owners QuinStreet [...]

Kentucky Attorney General Announces Win for Veterans against Predatory Practices

Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway announced today that QuinStreet, Inc. will turn over the website GIBill.com to the Department of Veterans Affairs and pay $2.5 million to the states involved as part of a consumer [...]

Veterans Affairs: After Court Settlement, VA Takes Over GIBill.com and Other Sites

In a legal win for Veterans, VA is taking control of the formerly privately-owned website GIBill.com. This means Veterans will be better protected against deceptive marketing practices launched by businesses eager to cash in on [...]

WBTV: GIBill.com to stop misleading veterans, service members

Raleigh, NC - GIBill.com, an official-looking website that steered military veterans to expensive for-profit schools, will turn its site over to the Department of Veterans Affairs and pay $2.5 million to North Carolina and 19 [...]