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A committee hearing turned into a political cat fight today, with Republican Senators accusing Democrats investigating for-profit schools of being "profit haters."
The committee, with Sen. Tom Harkin, D-IA, at the helm, continued its investigation into the suspect practices of for-profit educational institutions. Ten minutes into the hearing, Sen. Enzi, R-Wyo., used his allotted time to criticize the committee for picking on one sector in a vacuum. Enzi said he came to...
NEW YORK -- Kaplan Higher Education, a subsidiary of the Washington Post, is implementing a program that it hopes will help deflect criticism over the preparedness of its students to pay back loans following graduation.
The "Kaplan Commitment" program allows prospective students to attend the first few class sessions of a new course to assess whether they want to enroll. This trial period is free and will let students decide if the course meets their needs before taking on...
By Kevin Kuzma
The flower deliverers and the caterers are the first people on the streets of Capitol Hill most mornings. About 5 a.m., they pull their vans up onto curbs that in a few hours will be clogged with young people making their way between government offices. They carry enormous displays up staircases and wheel tall stacks of trays carrying sandwiches and desserts down ramps into parking garages.
This is all orchestrated with precision. The garage doors come up as they...
At least 1,500 students from for- profit colleges chanted in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington today to protest a proposed regulation that would limit their access to government grants and loans.
The rally precedes a Senate hearing tomorrow that will examine whether the schools misled students on their employment prospects after graduation. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Sept. 24 delayed issuing the "gainful employment" rule to early 2011 after receiving 91,000...
Dressed in the hospital scrubs, chef jackets and mechanic suits of their professions, more than 1,000 students and graduates of for-profit colleges gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to tell Congress that federal loans put toward their educations are worthwhile investments.
The students rallied against a pending new rule that would eliminate federal financial aid at career colleges where high proportions of graduates are not making enough money in their new jobs to pay back their...
