For-profit college group sues to block federal rules

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Source: The Washington Post

A group representing for-profit colleges sued the Education Department on Friday to try to block new federal rules relating to how the schools pay recruiters, how they represent themselves to prospective students and how states oversee their activities.

The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities alleges in the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, that the regulations published in late October are unconstitutional and violate federal administrative law.

The association represents 1,500 for-profit schools, including those operated by The Washington Post Co.'s Kaplan unit and several other publicly traded companies.

At issue in the suit are three regulations scheduled to take effect July 1.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/21/AR2011012106011.html

[Confusious]

1. Thieves & charlatans.

A waste of piss.

[Hannah Bell]

2. +100

[HankyDubs]

3. if the stock price comes first

The student comes last.

Feel pretty passionate about these creeps, wrote an article about their practices in case anyone wants some background:

http://dailycensored.com/2009/12/18/university-of-phoenix-settles-fraud-complaint-for-78-5-million/

This isn't about promoting my article, ignore it if you wish...READ THE COMMENTS...they are heartbreaking. These are evil institutions.

[Volaris]

4. Somebody at work asked me the other day

why I thought the local Community College was better for me than someplace like Sanford-Brown...
"because the Community College doesn't NEED an advertising department, because everyone who goes there already KNOWS that the credits will transfer to a 4-year college in the State"
I know enough people who have been put through the ringer in places like that, FUCK the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities.
disclaimer: I also know a very few people who have found them useful and worth the money they spent, but <I> think those people are few indeed, sooooo...