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The Education Department pulled strings to help the Dream Center, which owned a financially troubled for-profit college that misled students about its accreditation status: nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/…
Education Department official Diane Auer Jones, a former lobbyist for for-profit schools, wrote to Congress in May denying that the department had advised the Dream Center to misrepresent its accreditation status: americanoversight.org/investigating-…
Jones' position gives her the authority to oversee the accreditors of organizations she previously worked for. We FOIA'd for her communications: americanoversight.org/document/foia-…
Betsy DeVos’ Department of Education has continually favored for-profit colleges over protecting students. Under DeVos' leadership, the department has loosened regulations on for-profit institutions: nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/…
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Federal employees have the same First Amendment rights as everyone else. We're suing on behalf of the nation's largest federal employee union over recent Hatch Act guidance that will stifle the speech of workers who speak up about wrongdoing: americanoversight.org/afge-union-sue…
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