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unhappycamper

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Mon Jun 30, 2014, 08:35 AM Jun 2014

GI Bill funds go to for-profit schools

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jun/28/gi-bill-veterans-aid-private-forprofit-colleges/?st



At the Student Resource Center at the University of Phoenix in San Diego, students share ideas regarding their classes as well as help one another learn the procedures at the university

GI Bill funds go to for-profit schools
By Ashly McGlone10:14 a.m.
June 28, 2014

More than $600 million in federal financial aid for veterans has been spent in the past five years on schools in California that don’t meet the state’s own requirements for financial aid programs, according to a new report.

The Center for Investigative Reporting, based in the Bay Area, focused its report on Saturday on for-profit schools, saying they can leave veterans with worthless degrees and few job prospects, although the report said no state or federal agency tracks whether veterans graduate or find jobs.

The news outlet singles out the University of Phoenix campus in San Diego, which accepted the most GI Bill aid for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans at $95 million.

Mark Brenner, chief of staff at Apollo Education Group, Phoenix’s parent company, told U-T San Diego that Phoenix goes above and beyond to serve military veterans.
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GI Bill funds go to for-profit schools (Original Post) unhappycamper Jun 2014 OP
our federal and tax dollars are funding private schools, at the merrily Jun 2014 #1

merrily

(45,251 posts)
1. our federal and tax dollars are funding private schools, at the
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 08:40 AM
Jun 2014

encouragement of both Republican and Democratic politicians.

And this is where the allegedly post partisan era gets us. Turns out, politicians of both of the largest political parties can agree on almost anything that leads to, or might lead to, privatization of government functions at the expense of taxpayers.

Private profits, public losses. Same ole, same ole, even if you re-name it post-partisan or centrist, it's still the same ole story.

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