Los Angeles Times: A law targeting ‘diploma mills’ expires, leaving legislators grappling with how best to protect students.
Landmark California reforms enacted nearly 20 years ago to protect unwary students from “diploma mills” making false promises about how their training will lead to good-paying jobs, expired at midnight Saturday.
A stopgap measure to extend the protections — while debate continues on a long-range solution — could be passed in several weeks by legislators grappling with how best to protect students and improve the operations of the state agency that oversees trade schools.
There is intense debate about what to do next. Consumer advocates think that legislation to create a new regulatory scheme is not strong enough, while the trade association representing the schools maintains that it is too draconian.
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