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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“What I was sold on when I accepted and started attending was not at all what the program was,” Panzo said. “It was promises about an [American Psychological Association] accredited internship is guaranteed coming out of our program. That was a lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years since graduating, Panzo said compounding interest ballooned her debt to roughly $400,000, despite making consistent payments. She applied for borrower defense in 2022 and has been waiting for a decision ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been literally waiting in limbo,” Panzo said. “My husband and I have put off pursuing IVF until we know … it seems irresponsible to start doing that if we are going to have to pay all of these loans back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Panzo said the debt has ruined her credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her father died last month, Panzo said she didn’t qualify for a low-interest loan to cover the funeral expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, I was going to find whatever way I could, whether this is wise or not, to have a funeral for my father. So, I ended up having to take out an embarrassingly high-interest rate loan just to cover those expenses,” Panzo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students on campus at Santa Clara University on Nov. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Argosy was among the list of roughly 150 schools with known misconduct allegations, so Panzo said she expects to learn the fate of her debt in just a few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly comforting,” Panzo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzo acknowledged that the government could choose to deny her application, meaning she will have to pay down that roughly $400,000, but she said it’s better than having to live with the uncertainty.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Though the government is now working to review the applications in this group by the established deadlines, new applications continue to pour in from other students claiming to have been defrauded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, 250,000 applications for borrower defense were filed between late 2022, after the group covered by the ruling, and May 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connor, the co-counsel for borrowers, expressed concern that, without significant change, the department will fall behind again, leaving new claimants in limbo for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This settlement was meant to put leverage and pressure onto the department to stand up a system that would be able to handle the volume of borrower defense applications and force other reforms,” Connor said. “I don’t have confidence that that message has quite gotten through yet or that those reforms have happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the contrary, Connor said the problem might be worsened by cuts and massive layoffs as part of the Trump administration’s “efficiency” initiative this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem of fraud is only going to grow, because there’s no enforcement happening at the Department of Education right now,” Connor said. “It’s a failure on a very large scale, and it’s going to hurt a lot of people. And some people will make money off of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When state education investigator Leslie Feist visited Dolphin Trucking School in 2021, a teacher gave her a warning: Don’t stand near the truck while it’s moving. A tire might explode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, most of the trucks on the training lot “did not appear to be roadworthy,” Feist also observed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/accusation_1006582.pdf#page=20\">her report (PDF)\u003c/a>. Over the next two years, investigators found that Dolphin hired instructors who lacked the experience necessary to teach and that the school didn’t give students enough instruction, leaving graduates unprepared for the state’s truck driving exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those who did not pass suffered significant financial loss while those who did pass pose a significant danger to the public,” wrote an administrative judge, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/20240821_dolphin_trucking.pdf#page=27\">affirmed (PDF)\u003c/a> the state’s proposal to revoke the school’s license, effective Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet for years, California’s Employment Development Department used taxpayer dollars to subsidize tuition for students who attended Dolphin Trucking School, transforming it into one of the largest recipients of federal job training money in the state. The department continued recommending the school after it was under investigation — a violation of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ETPL-Policy-and-Procedures.pdf#page=18\">department policy (PDF)\u003c/a> — and when state education officials had moved to revoke the school’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the department removed Dolphin and three other schools from its list only after CalMatters asked why it was still recommending schools that were unlicensed or with a license under appeal, and schools that were under state or federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Dolphin Trucking School listen attentively as their instructor reviews the parts of the truck’s engine. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About half of the students who use the tuition subsidies that the employment department oversees attend for-profit schools, according to its most recent data. (Most of the rest attend a public institution, such as a community college, where tuition is usually free.) A CalMatters review found that among the nearly 120 for-profits enrolling at least four subsidized students, 75 faced disciplinary actions — for violations ranging from unpaid state fees to falsifying records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California relies on these for-profit trade schools to train thousands of students. It channels taxpayer dollars their way to cover tuition, sometimes up to $10,000 per student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, it does so with unmistakable ambivalence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/for-profit-schools#:~:text=Be%20careful%20and,get%20a%20job.\">attorney general’s website\u003c/a> cautions students to “be careful and do your homework” before enrolling in a for-profit school, noting that they “have been accused of fraud, abuse, and predatory practices targeting the poor, veterans and minorities by offering expensive degrees that often fail to deliver promised skills and jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To receive public money, for-profit schools are supposed to meet strict federal and state requirements. Then, if the state employment department is satisfied that qualifying schools’ programs are appropriate for the job market, the department will place them on a recommended schools list so local agencies can refer students there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education is in charge of licensing, vetting, and inspecting the state’s for-profit institutions, and it logs every violation it finds. The employment department is supposed to keep abreast of the bureau’s findings and act accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the employment department’s policy explicitly states that a training provider won’t be eligible for funding if it is under “any federal, state or local investigation,” department spokesperson Gareth Lacy said enforcement depends on the circumstances. If the investigation is for “egregious activity,” the department will stop recommending the school until it’s concluded, he said — but that’s not the consequence if a school makes administrative mistakes, such as incomplete reports or late fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a school loses its license or its owner is convicted of a crime related to the institution, Lacy said the department bars the school from receiving taxpayer dollars for at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bureau chief Deborah Cochrane declined to comment on the employment department’s policies but warned that some administrative issues, such as a pattern of unpaid fines and fees, can “call into question the administrative capability of the institution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy said that the employment department is “continually looking for ways to tighten the process” of recommending schools and now plans to create a “formal working group” with the education bureau to improve communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-they-don-t-understand-the-trucking-industry-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘They don’t understand the trucking industry’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The main facility of Dolphin Trucking School sits between the Los Angeles River and a topless sports bar next to an on-ramp for the I-10 freeway. It’s a parking lot, about the size of a soccer field, where students practice driving trucks through orange cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny day in the lot earlier this year, Uriel Zaizar, 24, waited in line for his turn to practice. For him and many others, the journey to this parking lot began with a search for a well-paying job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaizar said he’s been in and out of jail since he was 18 and is on probation for a drug dealing conviction. In January, he went to a local job center, where career counselors provide advice, job placement, and sometimes financial assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That financial assistance is the final step in the nation’s complicated workforce development system. Money comes via the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which is then allocated by California’s employment department through a network of 45 regional intermediaries known as workforce development boards. The boards collectively manage the state’s nearly 180 job centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In south Los Angeles, a job center spent more than $6,000 of taxpayer dollars to cover Zaizar’s tuition for an eight-week commercial truck driving class at Dolphin. Though Zaizar didn’t know that his school was under investigation, he said he wasn’t surprised, given the school’s mixed reviews online. “I get it,” he said. “It’s not top-notch. It’s the government-funded facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around him, about 20 students milled about. None knew about the investigation, and most didn’t care once they did. At any time, about half of the school’s students receive some form of public tuition subsidy, owner Carla Galvez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zaizar said he’s excited to get his truck driving license and start working as soon as possible. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education states in its reports that Dolphin committed 38 violations, including poor record-keeping, insufficient equipment for students, and under-qualified teachers. Many students told the bureau that they didn’t get enough class time to meet the state’s requirements for a truck driving license. Instead of learning, one student told the bureau that teachers often spent the first 45 minutes of class switching out batteries and checking equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operators of Dolphin Trucking denied the bureau’s allegations. Galvez said the trucks have complied with all required maintenance, and she cited inspections by the California Highway Patrol, which show the school’s trucks were “satisfactory” in 2020, 2022, and 2023. Many courses are similar, she said, and students often practice the same skill repeatedly, which is why the curriculum can appear disorganized. She said all the instructors have the relevant experience to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001128\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange cones divide the yard at Dolphin Trucking School, where students practice driving trucks. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The thing about the bureau is, they don’t understand the trucking industry,” said Carla’s daughter, Alejandra Galvez, a school representative. “It’s pretty much whatever complaint they get; they come get the school right away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as Zaizar was preparing to enroll, Dolphin Trucking School was disputing the bureau’s findings in an administrative court. The bureau makes a final decision but typically asks an administrative judge to weigh in first. After hearings in January, April and June, a judge agreed that the bureau should revoke its license.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-when-schools-lose-their-licenses\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>When schools lose their licenses\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the education bureau found that the Computer Institute of Technology in Los Angeles provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/1004198_accusation.pdf#page=12\">“false and misleading information” (PDF)\u003c/a> to its state inspectors. The bureau sought to revoke the school’s license, but after bringing the investigation to an administrative judge, the bureau decided to put it \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/compinstitutetech_sso1.pdf#page=5\">on probation (PDF)\u003c/a> instead, allowing the school to operate as long as the owner agreed to certain tasks, such as providing quarterly reports and a financial audit. The owner also agreed to provide students with a copy of the bureau’s complaints and information about the school’s probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the bureau investigated it again, this time in response to students who complained to the state that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/computer_institute_of_technology_final_accusation.pdf#page=11\">the school had stolen tuition money (PDF),\u003c/a> both before and after probation began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the state employment department continued to recommend the school — even after the department released its policy in 2021, which prohibited supporting schools under investigation. Lacy, the department spokesperson, confirmed that the last student receiving a subsidy to attend the Computer Institute of Technology graduated in June 2022. A few months later, the Los Angeles district attorney charged the school’s owner with using the Computer Institute of Technology to conduct \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/ba_508660_complaint.pdf\">fraud, forgery, and grand theft (PDF)\u003c/a>. The owner was convicted of conspiracy to commit a crime and of obtaining money through false pretenses. Prosecutors dropped the other charges, and as part of the plea deal, the owner served probation instead of jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau was still processing its own investigation. In March 2023, more than six months after the owner’s arrest and over a year after launching the latest investigation, the bureau \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/1006223_computer_institute_of_technology_order.pdf\">revoked the school’s license (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, the bureau is slow, taking over a year to process many routine licensing decisions. For-profit trade schools typically need to renew their licenses with the state every five years, but applications that are going to get denied or are otherwise “problematic” take longer, said Cochrane, the bureau chief. Dolphin Trucking School applied to renew its license in October 2022, the same month that its license expired. While the bureau deliberates on a licensing decision, it treats the school as though it’s still licensed, Cochrane said. In March of this year, the employment department stopped sending students to Dolphin after receiving questions about it from CalMatters. Today, nearly three years after Feist was warned about exploding tires and other problems, the bureau revoked the school’s license, effectively shutting the school down for any other student who wants to enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is almost certainly room for improvement,” Cochrane acknowledged but added that some delays are inevitable. The licensing process is lengthy and rigorous, and, she said, schools commonly submit incomplete applications, forcing the bureau to spend months filling in the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Dolphin Trucking School listen as their instructor reviews the truck’s engine parts. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One potential solution would be to clamp down on job training schools that submit incomplete applications. Another would be to require schools to apply long before their licenses expire. Cochrane said the bureau is considering both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two cases, the state employment department continued recommending schools even after the bureau rescinded their licenses. In June 2023, the bureau denied a license renewal request from the Micro-Easy Vocational Institute in Contra Costa County, citing \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/micro-easy_vocational_institute_ord.pdf#page=14\">multiple financial and administrative violations (PDF).\u003c/a> Nine months later, CalMatters asked the department why it still included the school on its recommended list. The department then removed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crescent College in Huntington Park lost its license in September 2023 but appealed the decision in November. This May, the bureau published \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/20240528_crescent_college_soi.pdf\">a statement (PDF)\u003c/a> defending its decision and asking an administrative judge to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters asked the employment department why the school was still recommended after it first lost its license and what the policy is for schools who have licenses under appeal. The department then stopped recommending it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-how-the-law-helped-for-profit-job-training-schools\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>How the law helped for-profit\u003c/strong> job training schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cwdb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2022/09/AJCC-Evaluation-Report_FINAL_ACCESSIBLE.pdf#page=10\">Research shows (PDF) \u003c/a>that job seekers who return to school are more likely to earn a higher wage in the long term. However, many job centers send adults directly into the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, state legislators passed \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_734_bill_20111006_chaptered.html\">a law\u003c/a> in 2011 that requires California’s workforce development boards to spend at least 20% of their money on education, such as tuition subsidies. Because the law regulates the amount of money spent — instead of the number of people trained — workforce boards and job centers are under pressure to spend those dollars, said Bob Lanter, the former director of the California Workforce Association. For years, he advocated on behalf of the regional workforce development boards, which directly oversee job centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11962723,news_11959751,news_11773028\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the law was passed, Lanter said that many for-profit schools raised tuition, knowing boards and job centers needed to spend more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not be so focused on how much money is spent,” he said. “Let’s be focused on how many people are receiving services, and maybe, the type of services they’re receiving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the U.S. House of Representatives passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6655/text\">a bipartisan bill\u003c/a>, sponsored by North Carolina Republican Virginia Foxx, that would require workforce development boards to spend at least 50% of the money earmarked for lower-income and unemployed adults on tuition subsidies or other forms of job training. It won’t just lead to more spending, though, said a spokesperson for Foxx, AnnMarie Graham-Barnes. She said the idea that workforce boards would spend more money without training more people “rests on a cynical view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This bill calls for more collaboration between community colleges and job centers, and it would create new requirements meant to weed out programs that charge a high tuition but lead to low-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier Romero, deputy director of workforce services at California’s employment department, said the state is also encouraging students to attend cheaper institutions, such as community colleges. Instead of putting money toward tuition at for-profit schools, job centers can use those dollars to help cover other student expenses, such as bus fare or rent. In total, the state’s job centers gave students just shy of $870,000 for personal expenses for the year ending in June 2023, according to Lacy, the department spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-43-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-43-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-43-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-43-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-43-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zaizar at Dolphin Trucking School. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uriel Zaizar was one of the last students to attend Dolphin Trucking School using job training tuition money from the employment department. Earlier this year, as he was wrapping up the course, he said that, in retrospect, he would have been better off sticking with a community college. Before the pandemic, he was in a two-year program at a community college, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, to become a contractor. But he dropped out after one semester, opting for something that seemed to promise a quicker job. “Here is only two months,” he said, referring to the trucking program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On many days after class ended, Zaizar would linger in the parking lot for another hour, waiting for his girlfriend to pick him up because they shared a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A trucking license, he said, would be his best shot at making money, fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Check to see if a \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/disciplinary_actions.shtml\">\u003cem>for-profit job training school faces state violations\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> with this lookup tool. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet for years, California’s Employment Development Department used taxpayer dollars to subsidize tuition for students who attended Dolphin Trucking School, transforming it into one of the largest recipients of federal job training money in the state. The department continued recommending the school after it was under investigation — a violation of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ETPL-Policy-and-Procedures.pdf#page=18\">department policy (PDF)\u003c/a> — and when state education officials had moved to revoke the school’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the department removed Dolphin and three other schools from its list only after CalMatters asked why it was still recommending schools that were unlicensed or with a license under appeal, and schools that were under state or federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-9-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Dolphin Trucking School listen attentively as their instructor reviews the parts of the truck’s engine. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About half of the students who use the tuition subsidies that the employment department oversees attend for-profit schools, according to its most recent data. (Most of the rest attend a public institution, such as a community college, where tuition is usually free.) A CalMatters review found that among the nearly 120 for-profits enrolling at least four subsidized students, 75 faced disciplinary actions — for violations ranging from unpaid state fees to falsifying records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California relies on these for-profit trade schools to train thousands of students. It channels taxpayer dollars their way to cover tuition, sometimes up to $10,000 per student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, it does so with unmistakable ambivalence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/for-profit-schools#:~:text=Be%20careful%20and,get%20a%20job.\">attorney general’s website\u003c/a> cautions students to “be careful and do your homework” before enrolling in a for-profit school, noting that they “have been accused of fraud, abuse, and predatory practices targeting the poor, veterans and minorities by offering expensive degrees that often fail to deliver promised skills and jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To receive public money, for-profit schools are supposed to meet strict federal and state requirements. Then, if the state employment department is satisfied that qualifying schools’ programs are appropriate for the job market, the department will place them on a recommended schools list so local agencies can refer students there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education is in charge of licensing, vetting, and inspecting the state’s for-profit institutions, and it logs every violation it finds. The employment department is supposed to keep abreast of the bureau’s findings and act accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the employment department’s policy explicitly states that a training provider won’t be eligible for funding if it is under “any federal, state or local investigation,” department spokesperson Gareth Lacy said enforcement depends on the circumstances. If the investigation is for “egregious activity,” the department will stop recommending the school until it’s concluded, he said — but that’s not the consequence if a school makes administrative mistakes, such as incomplete reports or late fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a school loses its license or its owner is convicted of a crime related to the institution, Lacy said the department bars the school from receiving taxpayer dollars for at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bureau chief Deborah Cochrane declined to comment on the employment department’s policies but warned that some administrative issues, such as a pattern of unpaid fines and fees, can “call into question the administrative capability of the institution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy said that the employment department is “continually looking for ways to tighten the process” of recommending schools and now plans to create a “formal working group” with the education bureau to improve communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-they-don-t-understand-the-trucking-industry-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘They don’t understand the trucking industry’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The main facility of Dolphin Trucking School sits between the Los Angeles River and a topless sports bar next to an on-ramp for the I-10 freeway. It’s a parking lot, about the size of a soccer field, where students practice driving trucks through orange cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny day in the lot earlier this year, Uriel Zaizar, 24, waited in line for his turn to practice. For him and many others, the journey to this parking lot began with a search for a well-paying job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaizar said he’s been in and out of jail since he was 18 and is on probation for a drug dealing conviction. In January, he went to a local job center, where career counselors provide advice, job placement, and sometimes financial assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That financial assistance is the final step in the nation’s complicated workforce development system. Money comes via the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which is then allocated by California’s employment department through a network of 45 regional intermediaries known as workforce development boards. The boards collectively manage the state’s nearly 180 job centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In south Los Angeles, a job center spent more than $6,000 of taxpayer dollars to cover Zaizar’s tuition for an eight-week commercial truck driving class at Dolphin. Though Zaizar didn’t know that his school was under investigation, he said he wasn’t surprised, given the school’s mixed reviews online. “I get it,” he said. “It’s not top-notch. It’s the government-funded facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around him, about 20 students milled about. None knew about the investigation, and most didn’t care once they did. At any time, about half of the school’s students receive some form of public tuition subsidy, owner Carla Galvez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-41-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zaizar said he’s excited to get his truck driving license and start working as soon as possible. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education states in its reports that Dolphin committed 38 violations, including poor record-keeping, insufficient equipment for students, and under-qualified teachers. Many students told the bureau that they didn’t get enough class time to meet the state’s requirements for a truck driving license. Instead of learning, one student told the bureau that teachers often spent the first 45 minutes of class switching out batteries and checking equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operators of Dolphin Trucking denied the bureau’s allegations. Galvez said the trucks have complied with all required maintenance, and she cited inspections by the California Highway Patrol, which show the school’s trucks were “satisfactory” in 2020, 2022, and 2023. Many courses are similar, she said, and students often practice the same skill repeatedly, which is why the curriculum can appear disorganized. She said all the instructors have the relevant experience to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001128\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-4-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange cones divide the yard at Dolphin Trucking School, where students practice driving trucks. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The thing about the bureau is, they don’t understand the trucking industry,” said Carla’s daughter, Alejandra Galvez, a school representative. “It’s pretty much whatever complaint they get; they come get the school right away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as Zaizar was preparing to enroll, Dolphin Trucking School was disputing the bureau’s findings in an administrative court. The bureau makes a final decision but typically asks an administrative judge to weigh in first. After hearings in January, April and June, a judge agreed that the bureau should revoke its license.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-when-schools-lose-their-licenses\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>When schools lose their licenses\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the education bureau found that the Computer Institute of Technology in Los Angeles provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/1004198_accusation.pdf#page=12\">“false and misleading information” (PDF)\u003c/a> to its state inspectors. The bureau sought to revoke the school’s license, but after bringing the investigation to an administrative judge, the bureau decided to put it \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/compinstitutetech_sso1.pdf#page=5\">on probation (PDF)\u003c/a> instead, allowing the school to operate as long as the owner agreed to certain tasks, such as providing quarterly reports and a financial audit. The owner also agreed to provide students with a copy of the bureau’s complaints and information about the school’s probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the bureau investigated it again, this time in response to students who complained to the state that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/computer_institute_of_technology_final_accusation.pdf#page=11\">the school had stolen tuition money (PDF),\u003c/a> both before and after probation began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the state employment department continued to recommend the school — even after the department released its policy in 2021, which prohibited supporting schools under investigation. Lacy, the department spokesperson, confirmed that the last student receiving a subsidy to attend the Computer Institute of Technology graduated in June 2022. A few months later, the Los Angeles district attorney charged the school’s owner with using the Computer Institute of Technology to conduct \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/ba_508660_complaint.pdf\">fraud, forgery, and grand theft (PDF)\u003c/a>. The owner was convicted of conspiracy to commit a crime and of obtaining money through false pretenses. Prosecutors dropped the other charges, and as part of the plea deal, the owner served probation instead of jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau was still processing its own investigation. In March 2023, more than six months after the owner’s arrest and over a year after launching the latest investigation, the bureau \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/1006223_computer_institute_of_technology_order.pdf\">revoked the school’s license (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, the bureau is slow, taking over a year to process many routine licensing decisions. For-profit trade schools typically need to renew their licenses with the state every five years, but applications that are going to get denied or are otherwise “problematic” take longer, said Cochrane, the bureau chief. Dolphin Trucking School applied to renew its license in October 2022, the same month that its license expired. While the bureau deliberates on a licensing decision, it treats the school as though it’s still licensed, Cochrane said. In March of this year, the employment department stopped sending students to Dolphin after receiving questions about it from CalMatters. Today, nearly three years after Feist was warned about exploding tires and other problems, the bureau revoked the school’s license, effectively shutting the school down for any other student who wants to enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is almost certainly room for improvement,” Cochrane acknowledged but added that some delays are inevitable. The licensing process is lengthy and rigorous, and, she said, schools commonly submit incomplete applications, forcing the bureau to spend months filling in the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031124-Dolphin-Trucking-School-ZS-CM-11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Dolphin Trucking School listen as their instructor reviews the truck’s engine parts. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One potential solution would be to clamp down on job training schools that submit incomplete applications. Another would be to require schools to apply long before their licenses expire. Cochrane said the bureau is considering both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two cases, the state employment department continued recommending schools even after the bureau rescinded their licenses. In June 2023, the bureau denied a license renewal request from the Micro-Easy Vocational Institute in Contra Costa County, citing \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/micro-easy_vocational_institute_ord.pdf#page=14\">multiple financial and administrative violations (PDF).\u003c/a> Nine months later, CalMatters asked the department why it still included the school on its recommended list. The department then removed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crescent College in Huntington Park lost its license in September 2023 but appealed the decision in November. This May, the bureau published \u003ca href=\"https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/20240528_crescent_college_soi.pdf\">a statement (PDF)\u003c/a> defending its decision and asking an administrative judge to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters asked the employment department why the school was still recommended after it first lost its license and what the policy is for schools who have licenses under appeal. The department then stopped recommending it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-how-the-law-helped-for-profit-job-training-schools\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>How the law helped for-profit\u003c/strong> job training schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cwdb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2022/09/AJCC-Evaluation-Report_FINAL_ACCESSIBLE.pdf#page=10\">Research shows (PDF) \u003c/a>that job seekers who return to school are more likely to earn a higher wage in the long term. However, many job centers send adults directly into the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, state legislators passed \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_734_bill_20111006_chaptered.html\">a law\u003c/a> in 2011 that requires California’s workforce development boards to spend at least 20% of their money on education, such as tuition subsidies. Because the law regulates the amount of money spent — instead of the number of people trained — workforce boards and job centers are under pressure to spend those dollars, said Bob Lanter, the former director of the California Workforce Association. For years, he advocated on behalf of the regional workforce development boards, which directly oversee job centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just a few months ago, California’s Democratic-controlled legislature seemed poised to pass the nation’s toughest restrictions on for-profit colleges. School owners publicly fretted that they’d have to shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the seven-bill package, which sailed through the Assembly, hoped California could help close a gap in oversight as the Trump administration has backed away from policing quality in a sector that relies heavily on public money but has been plagued by fraud and poor outcomes. But as the legislative session draws to a close, nearly all of the bills have died or been significantly weakened, felled by a costly lobbying blitz and the complexity of crafting a state-based solution to a nationwide challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their demise marks a victory for an industry that has been plagued by scandals and school closures in recent years — and a setback for consumer and veterans groups that supported the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience we’ve had moving this package forward highlights the role of money and what that buys as far as influence in the Capitol and in state capitols around the country,” said Assemblyman David Chiu, a San Francisco Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu’s bill would have conditioned the right of career education programs to enroll Californians on proof that their graduates earn enough to pay back their student loans. It’s a version of the so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/2019/04/california-gainful-employment-for-profit-colleges-veterans/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gainful employment\u003c/a>” rule created under President Barack Obama and repealed by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11773053 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"1831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic.jpg 700w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic-160x419.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic-459x1200.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other bills would have limited how much for-profit schools can rely on federal and state financial aid, prevented admissions staff from earning bonuses based on how many students they recruit and cracked down on colleges that officially convert to non-profit status but turn most of their earnings over to a profit-driven management company. The bills’ authors said they were meant to root out fraud and abuse in the industry, while allowing good schools to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many schools saw the legislation as an existential threat and spent heavily to defeat it. For-profit colleges, vocational schools and online education companies poured more than $800,000 into lobbying California legislators in the first six months of 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s nearly the same amount of lobbying cash that Pacific Gas & Electric spent defending its role in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state’s wildfire crisis\u003c/a> over the same period — and more than four times the money spent by the consumer and veterans groups backing the for-profit college bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=mindshift_54347,news_11767050 label=\"Higher Education in California\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sector is under a sustained assault by certain individuals and we don’t expect them to stop,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cappsonline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools\u003c/a>, an industry association, wrote in an email to members about the bills, which it dubbed “The Terrible 7.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association’s lobbying muscle was on display during the bills’ first hearing in April. While former students and recruiters at for-profit colleges testified about the schools’ aggressive recruiting tactics, dozens of current students opposed to the bills flooded the halls outside the hearing room, some wearing scrubs and nametags that read simply, ‘Student.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few spoke passionately about receiving a quality education at a for-profit college. Patricia Stanley, a Navy veteran, said that she chose the occupational therapy program at Stanbridge University for its small class size and “family feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We aren’t forced or persuaded or preyed upon,” Stanley said. “We definitely made the choice and sought out these schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, however, said they attended the hearing because school officials asked them to, and had told them that they would lose their financial aid if the bills passed. CAPPS president Robert Johnson did not respond to messages requesting comment about the association’s lobbying efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions also flowed from for-profit colleges to the Democratic Party and lawmakers that would make decisions on the bills. ICEPAC, the association’s political action committee, invited donors to a $1,000-a-head April fundraiser at the sleek Sawyer Hotel for the reelection campaign of Senate Education Committee chair Connie Leyva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Patricia Stanley, a Navy veteran']‘We aren’t forced or persuaded or preyed upon,’ Stanley said. ‘We definitely made the choice and sought out these schools.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days before the Senate Education and Business, Professions and Economic Development committees were set to vote on the bills, one vocational college chain donated to the campaigns of Leyva, Business and Professions chair Steve Glazer, and five other senators who sat on the committees, in five cases contributing the maximum allowable under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer’s committee went on to convey concerns to two of the bills’ authors. One withdrew her bill and the other made significant changes. Leyva’s committee approved that bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer’s chief of staff, Dan Weintraub, said the senator’s decisions “were driven by the facts and his concerns for the students who are enrolling or considering enrolling in this kind of a program, and nothing else.” A Leyva spokesperson said that “no contribution influences Senator Leyva’s decisions,” adding that Leyva “also strictly follows all fundraising reporting requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramond Curtis, the state policy manager for the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://vetsedsuccess.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veterans Education Success\u003c/a>, said he felt outgunned. His group supported \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1343\u003c/a> by Asm. Susan Eggman, aimed at closing a loophole in federal law that lets for-profit colleges subsist almost entirely on public financial aid dollars if the money includes military education benefits. Lowering the ceiling on financial aid to 85% of revenue and including GI Bill funds, many veterans groups believed, would remove an incentive for schools to target service members with predatory recruiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like other groups supporting the bill, Veterans Education Success is tax-exempt, does not make political contributions and spends little on lobbying. “We’re dealing with an issue of resources,” Curtis said. “We don’t have the money to oppose them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools had argued that to comply with the financial aid cap in Eggman’s bill, they’d either have to raise tuition or shut down. Committee chair Sen. 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CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/10/california-for-profit-colleges-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education was sitting on a backlog of nearly 1,200 unresolved student complaints, and inspecting schools less than half as often as it was required to by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the bureau says that it has hired more investigators to handle the complaints, shrinking the average caseload from 77 cases to about 20. But its outdated computer system — scheduled to be replaced in 2021 — still cannot perform basic functions such as tracking the status of complaints. A bill analysis found that putting the bureau in charge of enforcing the gainful employment standard would cost $12 million, an increase of more than 50% to the agency’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer doubted the bureau’s capacity to “gather all that data and compare it with wage data, and to do that in a high stakes environment,” Weintraub said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills’ fate points to a dilemma faced by consumer advocates who want to tighten state-level oversight of for-profit colleges in response to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s laissez-faire approach. State officials in Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts and New York are considering such measures. But states lack the budget of the federal government, and most haven’t developed an infrastructure to effectively monitor schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment where state attorney generals and legislatures are saying, ‘What can we do for consumer protection within our own state?’” said Howard Lurie, a higher education analyst with the research firm Eduventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators could take up that question again when the bureau undergoes a review of its performance next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Chiu hopes that gathering information on which for-profit vocational programs effectively prepare graduates for careers will help students make better decisions, and regulators identify red flags. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Just a few months ago, California’s Democratic-controlled legislature seemed poised to pass the nation’s toughest restrictions on for-profit colleges. School owners publicly fretted that they’d have to shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the seven-bill package, which sailed through the Assembly, hoped California could help close a gap in oversight as the Trump administration has backed away from policing quality in a sector that relies heavily on public money but has been plagued by fraud and poor outcomes. But as the legislative session draws to a close, nearly all of the bills have died or been significantly weakened, felled by a costly lobbying blitz and the complexity of crafting a state-based solution to a nationwide challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their demise marks a victory for an industry that has been plagued by scandals and school closures in recent years — and a setback for consumer and veterans groups that supported the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience we’ve had moving this package forward highlights the role of money and what that buys as far as influence in the Capitol and in state capitols around the country,” said Assemblyman David Chiu, a San Francisco Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu’s bill would have conditioned the right of career education programs to enroll Californians on proof that their graduates earn enough to pay back their student loans. It’s a version of the so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/2019/04/california-gainful-employment-for-profit-colleges-veterans/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gainful employment\u003c/a>” rule created under President Barack Obama and repealed by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11773053 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"1831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic.jpg 700w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic-160x419.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic-459x1200.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other bills would have limited how much for-profit schools can rely on federal and state financial aid, prevented admissions staff from earning bonuses based on how many students they recruit and cracked down on colleges that officially convert to non-profit status but turn most of their earnings over to a profit-driven management company. The bills’ authors said they were meant to root out fraud and abuse in the industry, while allowing good schools to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many schools saw the legislation as an existential threat and spent heavily to defeat it. For-profit colleges, vocational schools and online education companies poured more than $800,000 into lobbying California legislators in the first six months of 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s nearly the same amount of lobbying cash that Pacific Gas & Electric spent defending its role in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state’s wildfire crisis\u003c/a> over the same period — and more than four times the money spent by the consumer and veterans groups backing the for-profit college bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Leyva’s committee approved that bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer’s chief of staff, Dan Weintraub, said the senator’s decisions “were driven by the facts and his concerns for the students who are enrolling or considering enrolling in this kind of a program, and nothing else.” A Leyva spokesperson said that “no contribution influences Senator Leyva’s decisions,” adding that Leyva “also strictly follows all fundraising reporting requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramond Curtis, the state policy manager for the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://vetsedsuccess.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veterans Education Success\u003c/a>, said he felt outgunned. His group supported \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1343\u003c/a> by Asm. 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CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/10/california-for-profit-colleges-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education was sitting on a backlog of nearly 1,200 unresolved student complaints, and inspecting schools less than half as often as it was required to by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the bureau says that it has hired more investigators to handle the complaints, shrinking the average caseload from 77 cases to about 20. But its outdated computer system — scheduled to be replaced in 2021 — still cannot perform basic functions such as tracking the status of complaints. A bill analysis found that putting the bureau in charge of enforcing the gainful employment standard would cost $12 million, an increase of more than 50% to the agency’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer doubted the bureau’s capacity to “gather all that data and compare it with wage data, and to do that in a high stakes environment,” Weintraub said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills’ fate points to a dilemma faced by consumer advocates who want to tighten state-level oversight of for-profit colleges in response to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s laissez-faire approach. State officials in Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts and New York are considering such measures. But states lack the budget of the federal government, and most haven’t developed an infrastructure to effectively monitor schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment where state attorney generals and legislatures are saying, ‘What can we do for consumer protection within our own state?’” said Howard Lurie, a higher education analyst with the research firm Eduventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators could take up that question again when the bureau undergoes a review of its performance next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Chiu hopes that gathering information on which for-profit vocational programs effectively prepare graduates for careers will help students make better decisions, and regulators identify red flags. 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"content": "\u003cp>The turmoil in the for-profit college industry has affected California as much as any state, with the closures of major chains leaving thousands of students deeply in debt, their educations on hold. Meanwhile, the state agency in charge of regulating private colleges and vocational schools has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-for-profit-colleges-investigation/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struggled to enforce\u003c/a> California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now lawmakers and agency officials are seeking to tighten oversight of the troubled sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A package of seven bills unveiled Wednesday by Democratic state legislators would make major changes to the standards for-profit colleges must meet to operate in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1340\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 1340\u003c/a>, would bar schools from enrolling California students in programs designed to prepare them for careers if their students’ debt after graduation rises above a certain percentage of their incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s based on a “gainful employment” rule adopted by the Obama administration and since \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/us/politics/betsy-devos-for-profit-colleges.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delayed\u003c/a> by U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. 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Some students said their complaints of fraud had been dismissed with little explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, the bureau’s parent agency, the Department of Consumer Affairs, announced it had created a special five-member task force of current and retired investigators to reduce the backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau will also be reorganized, with its current enforcement chief transferring to an administrative role and a new special investigator with experience in complex investigations hired to oversee complaints, said spokesperson Matt Woodcheke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reorganization “was a long time coming, and we hope that moving forward, the bureau is much more well-positioned to serve the needs of students in California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bureau staff said they had reduced the complaint backlog by about a quarter since November — though it’s unclear whether that was due to staffing changes or to the bureau’s decision to close out pending complaints if a student did not respond quickly to a letter asking if they wished to continue their case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Megumi Tsutsui, a member of the bureau’s independent advisory committee who also represents students in fraud cases, said she hoped the new attention to complaints would lead to more thorough investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great that they’re putting all these resources in place,” she said. “What I wouldn’t want them to do is just find ways to close cases by marking them done and moving on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers pass AB 1340 and Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story is commonplace — students taking out thousands of dollars of loans to enroll in a career training program they have been led to believe will lead to a job, only to discover they’ve got themselves in a horrible financial hole with no return on their investment,” said the bill’s author, Assemblyman David Chiu of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A previous attempt to enact a California version of the gainful employment rule failed. But that was before California joined 17 other states in suing over the rule’s delay, and DeVos announced her intention to repeal it altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 160,000 California students attend degree-granting for-profit colleges, with many more studying for a career at one of the state’s for-profit vocational schools. Those numbers include 10 percent of black undergraduates, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://collegecampaign.org/portfolio/state-higher-education-black-californians/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent study\u003c/a> by the Campaign for College Opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11729700\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1017762208-800x1104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1104\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11729700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1017762208-800x1104.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1017762208-160x221.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1017762208-1020x1408.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1017762208-870x1200.jpg 870w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1017762208-1920x2649.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1017762208.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos participates in a meeting of the Federal Commission on School Safety on Aug. 16, 2018 in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also include veterans who use GI bill money to pay for both tuition and living expenses. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1343\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Another bill\u003c/a> by Democratic Assemblywoman Susan Eggman of Stockton would prevent colleges from using GI bill funds to rely more heavily on taxpayer money than federal law otherwise allows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1344\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1344\u003c/a> from Democratic Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan of Orinda, would expand the number of state rules that out-of-state colleges enrolling California students in online programs must comply with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staffer at the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools, which represents many of the state’s for-profit colleges, said no one was available to comment by press time on the legislative push.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said he was inspired to work with colleagues on the issue after an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-for-profit-colleges-investigation/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">investigation last fall\u003c/a> by CALmatters and The Sacramento Bee that found California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education often failed to enforce state laws designed to prevent predatory recruiting and other abuses at for-profit schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau was inspecting schools less than half as often as California law requires, the investigation found, and had a backlog of nearly 1,200 unresolved student complaints, many of which had been pending for years. Some students said their complaints of fraud had been dismissed with little explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, the bureau’s parent agency, the Department of Consumer Affairs, announced it had created a special five-member task force of current and retired investigators to reduce the backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau will also be reorganized, with its current enforcement chief transferring to an administrative role and a new special investigator with experience in complex investigations hired to oversee complaints, said spokesperson Matt Woodcheke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reorganization “was a long time coming, and we hope that moving forward, the bureau is much more well-positioned to serve the needs of students in California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bureau staff said they had reduced the complaint backlog by about a quarter since November — though it’s unclear whether that was due to staffing changes or to the bureau’s decision to close out pending complaints if a student did not respond quickly to a letter asking if they wished to continue their case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Megumi Tsutsui, a member of the bureau’s independent advisory committee who also represents students in fraud cases, said she hoped the new attention to complaints would lead to more thorough investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great that they’re putting all these resources in place,” she said. “What I wouldn’t want them to do is just find ways to close cases by marking them done and moving on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers pass AB 1340 and Gov. Gavin Newsom signs it, California would be the first state in the nation to establish its own gainful employment rule. At least some of the responsibility for enforcing the rule would likely fall to the bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said he and his colleagues would be monitoring the bureau’s evolution closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this time when our students are being defrauded and victimized, we need the bureau to step up,” he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThis story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In his latest effort to take on the Trump administration, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-takes-education-secretary-devos-court-withholding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims the U.S. Department of Education is refusing to let students off the hook\u003c/a> for loans they're entitled to have forgiven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit, filed Thursday in San Francisco, alleges the U.S. Department of Education under Betsy DeVos is refusing to process claims made by former \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/04/27/402560783/the-largest-for-profit-college-shutdown-in-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corinthian Colleges Inc.\u003c/a> students, who were defrauded by the for-profit schools and are therefore eligible for debt relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It marks the 23rd time California has sued the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What Secretary DeVos is doing is unconscionable,” Becerra said in a statement. “After having their American Dreams stolen by a so-called higher education institution, Corinthian students are now being denied critical relief by a Secretary of Education hostile to their plight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was instrumental in establishing loan forgiveness for tens of thousands of students allegedly scammed by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/27/corinthian-colleges-shut-down-in-wake-of-federal-penalties/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now-defunct Corinthian Colleges\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"AQRjrGOZzyrViW9kpTh7skyLIZpRx94W\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris was California's attorney general, she took Corinthian to court, claiming the schools preyed on poor students and made false promises about job prospects. Harris' office \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-obtains-11-billion-judgment-against-predatory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won a $1.1 billion judgment\u003c/a> against the school operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For years, Corinthian profited off the backs of poor people,\" Harris said in a statement at the time. \"Now they have to pay. This judgment sends a clear message: there is a cost to this kind of predatory conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-and-attorney-general-kamala-harris-announce-findings-investigation-wyotech-and-everest-programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint investigation\u003c/a> with California's Department of Justice, President Obama's Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/announcements/corinthian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told tens of thousands of former Corinthian students they were entitled to federal student loan relief\u003c/a> through a streamlined process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the new suit, more than 50,000 relief claims filed by Corinthian students are pending, including 13,000 from Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Xavier Becerra, California has sued DeVos' Education Department twice before, both times for issues related to for-profit colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One suit claims DeVos has \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-sues-department-education-illegally-delaying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delayed implementation of an Obama-era protection\u003c/a> that requires for-profit schools to prepare students for “gainful employment in a recognized occupation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other alleges DeVos has \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-sues-us-department-education-unlawfully-delaying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delayed the rollout of regulations\u003c/a> that require the Education Department to provide a streamlined loan forgiveness process to students who have been defrauded by for-profit universities.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined 17 other attorneys general Thursday, suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her department over her decision to delay regulations cracking down on for-profit colleges that mislead students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama-era regulations were supposed to take effect July 1. They would have allowed loan forgiveness in cases of misconduct by schools and made it easier for states to punish bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whether it’s Corinthian Colleges or Trump University, no student deserves to have their parents' -- or their own -- hard-earned money fraudulently taken away from them with nothing in return,\" Becerra said in an interview with KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general is referring to President Trump's now-defunct real estate training program and Corinthian Colleges, which shut down and eventually filed for bankruptcy after Becerra's predecessor sued over its predatory practices. Then-Attorney General Kamala Harris -- now a U.S. senator -- secured a $1 billion judgment against Corinthian Colleges on behalf of students. Then-President-elect Trump also settled three lawsuits alleging fraud and illegal business practices last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These regulations do, for America's parents and kids going to college, what we simply expect to happen anyhow -- which is that our students get educated, not ripped off, when they go to a college,\" Becerra said. \"The regulations were the product of these cases against sham universities like Corinthians, and essentially try to provide these protections to avoid this sort of defrauding from occurring in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra said the Trump administration is \"not above the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you’ve completed a process for enacting a law or regulation, then it must be implemented and obeyed,\" he said. \"The Trump administration ... doesn't have a right to selectively decide which laws and regulations it will execute and which it will abandon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit -- brought by California, 17 other states and the District of Columbia -- accuses DeVos of breaking federal law and giving free rein to for-profit colleges by rescinding the Borrower Defense Rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit asks a U.S. District Court to declare the Education Department's delay of the rule unlawful and to order the agency to implement it. The states say they have pursued \"numerous costly and time-intensive investigations and enforcement actions against proprietary and for-profit schools\" that violated consumer protection laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Borrower Defense Rule was adopted by the Obama administration last November and had been set to take effect this month. It was created to make it \"simpler for students at colleges found to be fraudulent to get their loans forgiven,\" as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/06/17/531930366/devos-rolls-back-for-profit-college-regs-harvards-president-to-step-down\">NPR's Ed team\u003c/a> has reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large amounts of money are potentially at stake. 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