(Note: This is a follow up to this story on the financial model of for-profit schools.) For-profit schools operate by attracting students willing to take on a lot of debt, much of it from the federal government in the form of grants and loans. Con

You’ve probably heard about Congress's investigation of for-profit colleges. You may not realize that the issues affect you as a taxpayer — not just people who are (or aren't) getting educated at these schools, and who are (or aren&

The U.S. Senate, which undertook an investigation of for-profit schools (a.k.a. proprietary schools, a.k.a. career colleges) last fall, is looking at the way the schools have targeted veterans who receive GI bill money. By law, postsecondary schoo