“Liberal Democrat” Lawyers Backing Kavanaugh Don’t Tell You They Represent...
Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is set to be introduced at his confirmation hearing by two Republican heavyweights — Senator Rob Portman (OH) and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
View ArticleWhat Brett Kavanaugh’s Supporters Are Saying About the Sexual Assault Charge
Below is what Brett Kavanaugh’s supporters are saying right now about the allegation by Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her when he was in high school. None of it looks good for...
View ArticleTrump Terrible 10: Kavanaugh Confrontation Edition
A woman, Christine Blasey Ford, came forward on her own and provided a detailed account of a drunken Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulting her in high school. A second woman, Deborah Ramirez, when...
View ArticleAccreditor Stalls Bridgepoint Education Plan To Become Non-Profit
In a filing this morning with the Securities and Exchange Commission, predatory for-profit college business Bridgepoint Education discloses that on Monday the accreditor WASC Senior College and...
View ArticleState Colleges Seduced By For-Profit, Online Education
As Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education works this morning to outsource more and more taxpayer-funded student aid to predatory for-profit online education companies, Wall Street investors see a new...
View ArticleOn For-Profit College Shutdowns, Lobbyist Gunderson Has No Shame
Regarding the recent epidemic of for-profit college closures, Steve Gunderson, the chief lobbyist for that industry, has taken his shamelessness to new heights — brazenly suggesting that the shuttered...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos, Meet Ralph from Comcast
Ralph, a Comcast technician, just spent two hours at my house working really hard and fixing my cable after another Comcast tech yesterday broke it while trying to upgrade my services. When he was...
View ArticleFriday Night Massacre: DeVos Trashes Rule That Protected Students from...
In an all-too-familiar turn, Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos chose a Friday afternoon to formally rescind a regulation that protected consumers and taxpayers — in this case the gainful...
View ArticleFalwell, Trump’s Favorite College President, Pioneered the Scam Non-Profit...
When the head of fraudulent Trump University became President of the United States, he quickly anointed Jerry Falwell, Jr., as his favorite college president. The Liberty University head had endorsed...
View ArticleBill in Congress Would End Taxpayer Aid to For-Profit Colleges. Good.
Today Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced a bill that would bar the Department of Education from sending federal student grants and loans to for-profit...
View ArticleSean Spicer Shills for Predatory For-Profit Colleges
As White House press secretary, he started off telling us the falsehood that President Trump drew the biggest inaugural crowd ever, then defended Trump’s lie that millions voted fraudulently in 2016,...
View ArticleScam America: We All Attend Trump University Now
The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with the New Jersey-based operators of a website called LendEDU, which falsely claimed to offer “unbiased” advice...
View ArticleStudent Advocates Again Challenge DeVos in Court For Trashing Obama-Era Rules
Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos has trashed two key rules that the Department of Education, during the Obama administration, painstakingly developed to discourage for-profit colleges from...
View ArticleFor-Profit College Lobbyist Desperately Sought Face Time With DeVos
Over three years, the for-profit college industry has gotten almost everything it has wanted from the Trump administration — the cancellation of Obama-era regulations aimed at holding...
View ArticleVA To Cut Off GI Bill Funds For Two Big For-Profit Colleges, Maybe
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that it plans to stop approving use of GI Bill dollars for veterans seeking to start education programs at two of the biggest for-profit...
View ArticleBeware: For-Profit College Scammers Will Exploit the COVID-19 Crisis
With thousands of people dying or imperiled by the global COVID-19 pandemic, and millions losing their jobs and their businesses across the country, it’s difficult to keep track of all the...
View ArticleWho’s Lobbying To Get COVID-19 Cash to For-Profit Colleges?
Howard “Buck” McKeon, a Republican former chairman of the House Education Committee, heads up the list of lobbyists paid, largely with your federal tax dollars, to lobby Congress to send even more tax...
View ArticleInside Arthur Keiser’s College Empire: Troubling Evidence
A close look into Arthur Keiser’s college operations, based on accounts by former school officials and employees, raises new questions about predatory recruiting, conflicts of interest, executive...
View Article25 Questions to Ask People Still Considering Trump
When the coronavirus was spreading in January, President Trump said it was “one person coming in from China” and “totally under control” and that everything would be “just fine.” As the virus...
View ArticleKeiser, Shireman Picked For DeVos Advisory Panel
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives announced new appointments to the Secretary of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), a panel that advises...
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