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- More than 80 federal legislators criticized the U.S. Education Department’s handling of the Dream Center’s attempt to purchase and operate a trio of colleges, writing in a letter last week obtained by Education Dive that the resulting closures “signal a pattern of severe mismanagement and dereliction of duty” at the department, which they allege was “complicit” in the nonprofit’s “efforts to mislead students.”
- The Ed Department should not have allowed Dream Center to buy the “financially troubled” for-profit Argosy and South universities and The Art Institutes, they wrote, going on to criticize its involvement with the college chains since.
- The legislators made several requests of the department, including to ease students’ ability to get a closed-school discharge and access their records. They also asked the department to deny any nonprofit conversion requests of institutions previously owned by Dream Center. They set a March 27 deadline for the department to respond.
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