Education Department Rescinding Regulation Reducing Fraud At For-Profit Colleges

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August 20, 2018

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during the fifth meeting of the Federal Commission on School Safety in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16, 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

An Obama-era regulation aimed at improving accountability at for-profit colleges is heading to the chopping block.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Jon Marcus (@JonMarcusBoston), higher education editor at The Hechinger Report, about the implications of the change.

This segment aired on August 20, 2018.

Education Department Rescinding Regulation Reducing Fraud At For-Profit Colleges

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