Jack and his equivalents are rallying the troops against DoE and Gainful Employment rule. Who benefits from killing the rule? Think about it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/06/us-usa-education-colleges-idUSKBN0IQ2NC20141106
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I am all for this law, I've been with CCI for less than a year and the harassment that students endure and the education they have is not worth the money/debt they will get....This place is a SCAM ....Some people really do care about the students and others are just here to make their 40-50 dolllars an hour enrolling and re-enrolling students who are homeless no computer skills and illiterate
Nice to know you have an aversion to learning anything from your enemies, @623. My approach is a bit different. I keep my friends close and my enemies closer. Even if you disagree with unethical individuals (and I certainly do), there are important things we can learn from them to direct toward more honorable outcomes. Wake up!
Who cares what Jack and his goons are up to! ECMC is purchasing those 2 dozen Everest campuses under non profit, so Gainful Employment won't have anything to do with the new brand. Neither will the idiots ran CCI into the ground, they will be gone and stay gone. Yeah, that's you, you greedy RDOA and RVP.
Even if you support gainful employment, you have to give credit to the For Profits re: timing of their lawsuit against it.
IMO the gainful employment rule is unlikely to survive the challenge, but even if it does nobody in the now GOP controlled Congress will agree to the funding needed to police it.
There are some wicked smart business minds in this fight. Too bad they hold students in such disregard that they won't allocate sufficient Federal funds to teach them how to be successful.
@614, I am not a happy taxpayer, and I agree with everything you wrote. Maybe it is time to trot John Oliver out again. You know, the bit about the Psychiatry Clinical Rotation at the Museum of Scientology and the letter "writing" campaign which was so aggressively encouraged...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8pjd1QEA0c (forward to 9:00).
I think it's perfectly ok to have a law that protects students from a $40,000 debt (without interest) so the student can get a job that will pay at most $15-$20. There's nothing wrong with that. The lobbying money probably came from the federal loans from students. Everything is. CCI funding comes from 90% federal loans. That's taxpayers, folks. And when 50% default, it adds up quickly.
The money spent on lobbying has been widely reported.
CCi paid out $620,000 to lobbyists Tony Guida and Omar Terrie in 2014. That stings those who took paycuts and furloughs, and especially those who lost their jobs. CCi also contributed more than $72,000 to political campaigns (mostly to republicans) in 2013/2014.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?cycle=2014&ind=H5300