“Gainful employment” regulations due soon would deny federal loans and grants to college vocational programs with high debt and default rates. For-profit colleges, fighting hard against “gainful employment,” found an ally this week in House Education and Labor Committee Chairman John Kline, who filed an amendment to prevent the Education Department from finalizing the rules. Rep. Alcee Hastings, a Florida Democrat, joined Kline, making it a bipartisan measure.
The House proposed amendment would block funding for the gainful employment rule for the remainder of the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, and would provide more time to change the department’s plan, Kline said. The amendment also would stop government rules scheduled to go into effect July 1 requiring for-profit colleges to notify the department before offering new courses, he said.
“This gives us more time, or the department more time, to consider the language of the rules,” he said yesterday. “We know that there are proprietary schools that have had plans to expand and have stopped or laid off people in large part because of the threat of these rules.”
Blocking “gainful employment” gives the green light to waste, fraud and abuse by for-profit colleges, charges Campus Progress.
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Blocking “gainful employment” gives the green light to waste, fraud and abuse by for-profit colleges, charges Campus Progress.
Talk about a sweeping statement. I want to see public colleges publishing their GRAD and Default rates.