Los Angeles Times: Oversight of for-profit schools may end
A state law regulating the colleges and vocational programs, which enroll more than 400,000 students a year, will expire in July.
By Jordan Rau, Times Staff Writer
March 26, 2007
SACRAMENTO — A class assignment gave Robert Thornton an early clue that the computer training program he was enrolled in might have higher priorities than his education.
“They had had us all put together computers for their school because they were expanding into another building,” Thornton said. His fellow students at the Computer Education Institute’s San Diego campus grumbled “that they were getting free labor out of us and calling it teaching.”