Leaked Memo Reveals That House GOP Leaders "Directed" For-Profit College Lobbying Strategy
For-profit colleges like ITT, DeVry, Kaplan, and the Art Institutes -- sometimes called subprime schools because they leave many students deep in debt while taking billions of dollars from taxpayers -- continue an expensive lobbying push to influence Congress and avoid accountability. Republic Report has received a 2011 draft strategy memo by the biggest for-profit college trade association, APSCU, outlining a plan to keep taxpayer money flowing to poorly-performing schools and to derail investigations of fraudulent activity.
The six-page APSCU draft document reveals:
- The group's strategy for passage of key bills in Congress was "directed by" the "House