Enforcement Chief at Postsecondary Bureau to Resign - The Bay Citizen

Enforcement Chief at Postsecondary Bureau to Resign - The Bay Citizen:

Enforcement Chief at Postsecondary Bureau to Resign

Resignation comes after The Bay Citizen revealed the bureau failed to properly oversee state's for-profit schools

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By JENNIFER GOLLAN on February 27, 2012 - 6:34 p.m. PST

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Screen shot from California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools Annual Conference

Karen Newquist speaks to the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools' Annual Conference in Oct. 2011.

The administrator in charge of policing the state’s for-profit schools at the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education is stepping down next month.

Karen Newquist, the bureau’s chief of enforcement since November 2010, intends to leave her post in March. Her replacement has not been named.

Newquist's departure comes after The Bay Citizen revealed that the bureau had not fulfilled many of its fundamental oversight responsibilities, including aggressively investigating complaints, monitoring the quality of educational programs and rooting out unlicensed schools and diploma mills.

The bureau was established by the state Legislature two years ago to strengthen protections for the approximately 400,000 students who attend private vocational schools across the state.

The Bay Citizen reported in December that the bureau had a backlog of about 200

Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/15SvY)