For-Profit Colleges Seeking Loans ‘Rob’ Students, Testimony Says
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For-profit colleges leave students with high debt and inadequate educations that can harm them for years after they graduate or quit school, witnesses are scheduled to testify today at a Senate hearing in Washington.
Recruiters enticed Danielle Johnson, a mother from Iowa, to enroll in Washington Post Co.’s Kaplan education unit, saying she could train at home to be a nurse, a claim that turned out to be untrue, she said in testimony prepared for today’s Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee hearing. Kaplan refused to release her transcripts, preventing her from transferring into a cheaper community college, she said.