We must increase our efforts to protect students from ‘predatory colleges’

“Secretary DeVos has stacked her administration with executives who previously worked at the same schools that reportedly were under investigation. At the same time, a recent story in The New York Times suggests a troubling development at the U.S. Department of Education. The Education Department is reportedly dismantling a unit created in 2016 to investigate abuses at predatory and abusive colleges. At the same time, These changes come at a time when things seemed to be improving in the industry, with several for-profit schools voluntarily changing practices, large institutions like Corinthian Colleges Inc. and ITT Technical Institute closing, and several federal and state agencies pushing forward with new investigations.”