“[For-profit colleges] serve a purpose and some do a good job, but there’s obviously an incredible number of bad actors and I would like to shut them down.”
- Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota), at yesterday’s Senate hearing on for-profit colleges.
While you might discount this because you think that Franken is a left-wing nut, even the senior Republican on the committee acknowledged that there were “bad actors” in the for-profit college industry. When’s the last time you heard anybody mention a “bad actor” among community colleges?
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