for-profit education

After Fighting The Taliban, Soldiers Return Home To Face Attacks From For-Profit Colleges & Their Lobbyists

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 [...]

Lobbying Makes Low-Performing For-Profit Colleges Highly Profitable

For-profit college receive almost a quarter of federal aid money, although they enroll only 9% of American college students and graduate fewer still: just 5% of bachelor’s degrees. What’s worse, graduates from for-profit colleges default on their federal loans in huge numbers: 43% of all defaults in 2008. Tax-payers might ask what America is getting [...]

For-Profit Education Firm Kaplan is 14th Company to Dump ALEC

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 [...]

THE GOALS OF VOUCHER SYSTEMS IS TO PUT PUBLIC EDUCATION INTO A DEATH SPIRAL

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, [...]

Meet The Corporate Members of ALEC’s Task Forces – A Review of Their Backgrounds and Connections

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 [...]