Education Department Unwinds Unit Investigating Fraud at For-Profits

[DonViejo]

Source: The New York Times




By Danielle Ivory, Erica L. Green and Steve Eder

May 13, 2018

WASHINGTON — Members of a special team at the Education Department that had been investigating widespread abuses by for-profit colleges have been marginalized, reassigned or instructed to focus on other matters, according to current and former employees.

The unwinding of the team has effectively killed investigations into possibly fraudulent activities at several large for-profit colleges where top hires of Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, had previously worked.

During the final months of the Obama administration, the team had expanded to include a dozen or so lawyers and investigators who were looking into advertising, recruitment practices and job placement claims at several institutions, including DeVry Education Group.

The investigation into DeVry ground to a halt early last year. Later, in the summer, Ms. DeVos named Julian Schmoke, a former dean at DeVry, as the team’s new supervisor.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/business/education-department-for-profit-colleges.html

[pazzyanne]

1. And the corruption just keeps going...

This is getting sickening. Somehow this needs to stop soon, before we have no country left.

[procon]

2. Its a feature not a bug.

Betsy DeVos is in the private school business -- think of a fox guarding the chickens -- and in removing any oversight the profits can proceed without worrying about getting even a teeny slap on the wrist for ripping off kids.

[salin]

3. There is nothing about the GOP or this Administration that is for the people/citizens. Only Corps.

And if the corporations can scam the citizens unchecked - well the GOP says bully for them - make more money!!!!

[appalachiablue]

4. +1

[lkinwi]

5. Everything is for sale, including our kids.

[Lonestarblue]

6. It makes me sick to read this.

DeVos may be quieter, but she is every bit as greedy and evil as Trump. I spent most of my career in education, and worked with a lot of wonderful people who truly care about kids and helping them succeed. For DeVos to not only stop investigations, but also hire people as her top staff from the very institutions that were being investigated is beyond unacceptable. It is criminal, and I hope she rots in hell, Christian Dominionist that she is, for the things she is doing to education for more and more profit. I don’t think I can take two more years of this evil administration, and I’m not sure we’ll even have a country left. We certainly won’t have much of a government, and our court system may be run by right-wing judges who prefer the Bible to the Constitution.

[dalton99a]

9. +1. Contrary to SNL characterizations, DeVos is far from stupid

[sakabatou]

7. Disgusting

[Takket]

8. IMO DeVos is the most horrible of the swamp cabinet........

and that is saying something, because there are some fucked up people up and down that wretched hive.

[lovemydogs]

10. The swamp creatures from this administration keep up the corruption

[BadGimp]

11. The Trumpistas and their families are the ones who will feel the pain...

but never acknowledge it till it's way too late or if they ever will.