May 3, 2013, 12:00 AM
California's attorney general has joined the U.S. Department of Justice and several other states in a whistleblower lawsuit against for-profit educational firm Education Management Corp. See which attorneys general in other states have launched investigations of for-profit colleges.
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November 13, 2012, 12:05 AM
For-profit college giant Career Education Corp. announced that it will close 23 of its 90 campuses and eliminate 900 jobs after the company reported a net loss this quarter of $33 million and a 23 percent drop in new student enrollment. The company, which owns six campuses in California, has...
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September 11, 2012, 12:05 AM
The Academy of Art University has sued the California Student Aid Commission, arguing the state agency should not have ruled the San Francisco college's students ineligible for Cal Grants in the 2012-13 academic year. Under new rules signed into law in June, California colleges must have a...
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August 7, 2012, 12:05 AM
Among the findings of a U.S. Senate committee’s recently released investigation of the nation’s for-profit college industry is a stark assessment of the huge gap between what it costs to get a degree or certificate from a career college and the price tag of a comparable program at a...
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June 28, 2012, 12:05 AM
Foster City-based Internet marketing company QuinStreet has agreed to hand over one of its websites to the federal government and pay $2.5 million to settle claims it violated consumer protection laws by deceptively marketing for-profit colleges to military veterans. California Watch first...
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June 25, 2012, 12:05 AM
One of the agencies that accredits San Francisco's California Culinary Academy is questioning the veracity of the college's reported job placement rates – ordering the school's parent company to provide audited placement data by September in order to maintain its accreditation...
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June 5, 2012, 12:05 AM
Attorneys general in 15 states are investigating QuinStreet, a Foster City-based Internet marketing company that connects its for-profit college clients with service members and veterans looking to spend their military education benefits. In their inquiry, the investigators expressed concerns...
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April 18, 2012, 1:09 PM
Today, Laura Metune became the new chief of the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, the beleaguered state agency charged with overseeing the state’s vocational and for-profit colleges. Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Metune to the $110,580-a-year post earlier this month. ...
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March 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
As the cost of higher education continues to increase and federal and private student debt nears the $1 trillion mark, lawmakers and regulators are zeroing in on private student loans. A bill introduced by state Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, and advanced this week...
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February 17, 2012, 12:05 AM
California's recently formed Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education has significant weaknesses in its oversight of for-profit colleges, advocacy groups told lawmakers at a hearing this week. The agency's lax approach limits its ability to police abuses in the for-profit sector,...
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February 10, 2012, 12:05 AM
The San Francisco city attorney's office is investigating student recruiting practices and job placement reporting at The Art Institute of California in San Francisco and seven other Art Institute campuses across the state, according to a new filing by the for-profit college owner, Education...
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January 27, 2012, 12:05 AM
The accreditor that oversees several campuses owned by for-profit college company Career Education Corp. is demanding that it submit more accurate data on its job placement rates as part of a "show-cause" hearing, saying data the firm provided to the accrediting council in December was...
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December 5, 2011, 12:05 AM
A former for-profit college CEO who resigned last month after an investigation revealed the company was inflating job placement rates will receive a compensation package worth more than $5 million under the terms of his separation agreement, according to a recent filing with the U.S....
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November 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
New figures show two California campuses owned by for-profit education firm Career Education Corp. appear to have placed fewer than 65 percent of graduates in jobs – the minimum job placement rate required by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. And while Career...
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November 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
A for-profit education company with five campuses in California disclosed last week that an investigation by outside counsel found the company was inflating job placement calculations at several of its campuses – just one day after the company announced the CEO’s resignation. The...
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