Kaplan Quest at Taxpayer Expense Ensnares Veteran
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After Keith Melvin, a disabled and decorated veteran, returned from Iraq, he wanted to earn a bachelor’s degree in legal studies.
He filled out a form on a website, and recruiters for online for-profit Kaplan University contacted him. They told him the government would pay his tuition, that he could move on after graduation to Kaplan’s law school, and that he could trust Kaplan because the prestigious Washington Post Co. owns it, Melvin said in a telephone interview.