Department of Education end probe into fraud within for-profit colleges

It comes as no shock to those who know her position on education in America.

A Department of Education team that had looked into fraud and abuse by for-profit colleges has been dismantled to the point that it has “effectively killed investigations” into institutions where top hires of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos once worked, The New York Times reported Sunday, citing current and former employees.

The team has gone from about a dozen lawyers and investigators looking into advertising, recruitment, and graduate employment claims of several institutions at the end of the Obama administration to just three team members today, the Times reported. Current and former employees, including former team members, said the team’s mission has been reduced to processing student loan forgiveness applications and examining smaller compliance cases, the newspaper said.

Oh good…more of Trump’s poorly educated fanboys will continue to get screwed.

Not surprising. Some of these for profit colleges are a joke. Sadly, it’s often veterans that get used and ripped off by these institutions.

Their almost as bad as predatory loan companies.

Shocker…

Is the investigation just suppose to go on forever? I bet it was just the left hating for profit colleges.

The number of cases of fraud the investigation found prove otherwise.

I’m sure if we knew exactly what each of those “crimes” were, we’d laugh…

Look, we ge tit. Cronyism and fraud are totes cool under Trump…

Does she by any chance have a husband who is an honorary chancellor at one of these diploma mills and gets paid $16,000,000 for his services?

Ok, that’s a deflection. But the Clintons make it so easy.

You’re not far off. From the OP:

“A Department of Education team that had looked into fraud and abuse by for-profit colleges has been dismantled to the point that it has “effectively killed investigations” into institutions where top hires of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos once worked, The New York Times reported Sunday, citing current and former employees.”

The swamp deepens.

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