Congress invited predatory for-profit colleges to defraud military veterans when it wrote a loophole into the rules governing federal education aid. The loophole, added to the Higher Education Act in 1998, encouraged the schools to take the education aid of Americans who had served the country while giving them valueless degrees — or no degrees at all — in return.
Coalition Comment to ED on Part II “Accountability in Higher Education and Access through Demand-Driven Workforce Pell”
Nineteen stakeholder organizations working on behalf of students, consumers, veterans, service members, faculty and staff, civil rights, and college...