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BrotherIvan

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5. THIS is why we need publicly funded trade schools

Reply to Redfairen (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 02:23 AM

Feb 2014

We are abandoning those students who are not college bound (and the college track as well). These predatory trade schools can fill the gap, promising jobs and swindling students out of enormous tuition fees. It is FRAUD.

And yet we are told we don't have enough skilled workers in this country...

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Lawsuit Accuses For-Profit Schools of Fraud [View all] Redfairen Feb 2014 OP

This is why the WH has been aggressively fighting these schools since 2009 frazzled Feb 2014 #1

There's been fraud in charter schools. merrily Feb 2014 #10

I've seen this first hand too. This action comes many years too late. joanbarnes Feb 2014 #2

Put these fuckers in jail. jsr Feb 2014 #3

Get In, Get Out, Get Ahead... BodieTown Feb 2014 #4

THIS is why we need publicly funded trade schools BrotherIvan Feb 2014 #5

I forget what it was, but there was a rule that was altered that allowed these types of schools to El_Johns Feb 2014 #6

Got a cite??? nt msanthrope Feb 2014 #13

They promised reforms right before the last midterm elections (2010), but then woo me with science Feb 2014 #14

Of course world wide wally Feb 2014 #7

"so that government grant and loan dollars would keep flowing." Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #8

Oh yeah, looks like they're squeaky clean Th1onein Feb 2014 #9

If true, it won't be the first case of fraud in for profit schools. merrily Feb 2014 #11

this has been going on for decades Herself Feb 2014 #12