Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Century Foundation Fellow Addresses How this Higher Education Bill Will Only Increase Inequality
Anti-poverty activists are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill that would allow students at for-profit colleges to get the same kind of tuition assistance being offered to their non-profit counterparts. They argue the bill, passed in the waning days of this year's legislative session and now on Cuomo's desk, doesn’t weed out the significant number of for-profit colleges that are on a federal watch list of institutions whose graduates are struggling to pay back their loans.
“This bill only does one thing: It helps for-profit schools,” said Yan Cao, a fellow at the Century Foundation, a progressive think tank....