May 19, 2012
After risking their lives abroad, American veterans are returning home to a new set of dangers. For-profit college companies are increasingly targeting veterans and their education benefits as a source for easy profits. The companies have a record of fraud, from deceptive recruiting practices to extremely high drop-out and default rates. Unlike tradition private or [...]
Apr 28, 2012
by Rebekah Wilce — April 27, 2012 Kaplan, a for-profit education, tutoring, and testing empire that is the largest division of the $4 billion Washington Post Company, recently told the Republic Report (RR) that Kaplan’s for-profit college division “was a member of ALEC for a one year period, which ended in August 2011.” For the [...]
Apr 16, 2012
Written by VLTP’s OhioDem1 Here are two excerpts: 1. “The goal of Voucher systems is to put public education on a death spiral, because each year it is intended to take marginal revenue from the public school systems…Each year the cycle is renewed, forcing the local school boards to seek greater local property tax support, [...]
Apr 9, 2012
From CNN by Libby Lewis “NRA expands its role from fight for gun rights to conservative causes” CNN reports that the NRA was involved with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) through their representative, “An NRA lobbyist, Tara Mica, helped shepherd a model bill that requires voters to show a photo ID at the polls…Mica [...]
