31.05.2012 - 16:56 [ Truthout ]

For-Profit Education: Milking Students and the Taxpayers for Corporate Profits

In recent Solutions columns on for-profit prisons, Dina Rasor demonstrated how these privatized, formerly government-run institutions, have become home to self-dealing, destructive social behavior and wasted taxpayer money. In the spirit of looking at increasingly privatized institutions, I see similar aspects of the new and growing for-profit college system we are creating in this country.