Are the schools that get the most GI Bill money spending the least on teaching? – Military Times
Some of the schools that receive the most Post-9/11 GI Bill money spend the least on teaching students, a new report suggests.
The study, conducted by the nonprofit group Veterans Education Success, analyzed more than 4,600 higher-education institutions and found that in 2017, 427 of those schools spent less than 30 percent of their gross tuition dollars on instruction, according to VES. That’s about $980 million in GI Bill money that went toward costs other than directly educating student veterans, VES estimates.
“Is it appropriate for colleges to charge taxpayers for GI Bill funds but then divert those funds away from veterans’ actual education?” asked VES President Carrie Wofford during a Capitol Hill briefing on the report Thursday. “And does Congress owe it to veterans and taxpayers to more carefully guard veterans’ earned benefits?”