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Durbin, Harkin: GAO Report Rejects For-Profit College Industry’s Excuse for Poor Student Success Rates

Report Shows For-Profit College Students Fare Worse Overall than Nonprofit, Public College Students

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WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 7, 2011. U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) announced that a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report debunks the for-profit college industry’s longtime excuse for poor student success rates at their schools:  that they enroll students whose socioeconomic status and other characteristics make them “high-risk.”  Today’s GAO report, which compares student success rates at for-profit, nonprofit, and…

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