{"id":2414,"date":"2007-05-14T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T21:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/05\/educating-the-education-secretary\/"},"modified":"2007-05-14T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T21:46:18","slug":"educating-the-education-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/05\/educating-the-education-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Educating the Education Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/14\/opinion\/14mon4.html?_r=2&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">Educating the Education Secretary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not our fault.\u201d That\u2019s what Education Secretary Margaret Spellings seemed to say while testifying before Congress last week about her department\u2019s failure to halt the payoffs, kickbacks and general looting of the public treasury by a lending company that collected nearly $300 million in undeserved subsidies. But that doesn\u2019t track with the federal Higher Education Act, which clearly authorizes the secretary to disqualify from federal programs lenders who employ payoffs, kickbacks and unethical practices like those that have been found to be commonplace in the college lending business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times: Educating the Education Secretary \u201cIt\u2019s not our fault.\u201d That\u2019s what Education Secretary Margaret Spellings seemed to say while testifying before Congress last week about her department\u2019s failure to halt the payoffs, kickbacks and general looting of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/05\/educating-the-education-secretary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}