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Court Strikes Down “Gainful Employment” Repayment Rate that Was Embarrassingly Low to Begin With
Last year the Obama administration implemented “gainful employment” regulations designed to identify higher education programs, primarily in the for-profit sector, that load students up with debt in exchange for low-value credentials and degrees. The
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Texas Higher Education Must Confront Hard Choices, Penn Study Finds
Texas will be forced to put the state’s economic growth at stake by closing the doors to college opportunity for thousands of young people, many of them Latino, unless leaders prioritize their goals for
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My Turn: Why granting a high school diploma should be a promise
Contributing Writer August 13, 2012 0By Bill Hammond, Texas Association of Business and Carroll G. Robinson, Esq., Houston Community College System The Houston Independent School District has recently begun to tout its success in reducing the number of student dropouts
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