For-Profit Colleges: Separate but not equal and the New Jim Crow
Daily Journal (Opinion)Jan 28, 2012School segregation and the doctrine of separate but equal were the law of the land until 1954 when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v Board of Education: We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. .
Sixty years later we have a new type of segregation called for profit colleges. These Wall Street and private equity funded online virtual schools are populated mostly by the low income and minorities, and charge two to five times the tuition of public universities and community colleges.
At these for profit colleges, about 50% of tuition goes to marketing and