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06/20/2019

Although the Art Institute of Phoenix closed in December of 2018, some students are still hitting roadblocks in erasing their student loans.

04/23/2019

These State Attorneys General better listen up.

GROUP WIDE DISCHARGE

Williams v DeVos

Challenges the Department of Education’s coercive collection of defaulted federal student loans from Corinthian Colleges, seizing borrowers’ tax refunds despite a pending application for discharge.

04/08/2019

Trump Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos owns the ongoing, awful meltdown of the chains of career colleges -- the Art Institutes, Argosy University, and

04/08/2019

About 26,000 students are caught in the meltdown at Dream Center. The Education Department has scrambled to salvage their educations after it approved an unlikely turnaround plan.

06/30/2016

Kelly Ayotte backed vets' education. Now she's taking lobbyist money from for-profit colleges who screwed them. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kelly-ayotte-fundraises-with-trump-style-university-lobbyist_us_57741fa1e4b0cc0fa1364df2

The online degree factory allegedly targets the very veterans the senator pledged to help with the GI Bill.

06/24/2016

ACICS accredits predatory for-profit colleges while simultaneously having the CEOs for these schools sit on their board of directors.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/big-accreditor-profit-colleges-lose-authority-40083013

An advisory panel to the Education Department voted Thursday to recommend the government sever ties with a group that accredits many of the nation's for-profit colleges, including schools once owned by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges Inc. — a critical vote that could lead schools to close...

11/17/2015

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10/19/2015

"Considering Congress has been investigating for-profit schools since 2010, you'd think the government would have learned its lesson. However, the New York Times reported just a few days ago that the U.S. Department of Education continues to give tens of millions of dollars each month to schools that have been accused of predatory behavior and illegal practices — including EDMC. In fact, the Times said EDMC received more than $1.25 billion in government funding over the past year.
EDMC will be out of business in southcentral Pennsylvania soon enough. It announced in May that it would close the Art Institute of York along with 14 other Art Institute locations over the next couple of years. The York campus also laid off 10 of its 90 staffers, most of whom were employed in the school's no-longer-needed admissions office.
At the time, a company spokesman attributed the move to "the realities of the education environment"; sure, if the education environment means ripping off taxpayers and cashing in on the dreams of trusting students who wanted to improve their lives."

http://www.cpbj.com/article/20151019/BLOGEXTRA/151019875/art-institute-of-york-operator-reportedly-close-to-settling-lawsuits-worth-billions

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Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corp., a for-profit operator of colleges that includes the Art Institute of York, is reportedly close to settling multiple lawsuits that accuse the company of us