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Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat and member of the Senate education committee, argued in a speech Thursday for a federal accountability system that would apply to all colleges.
Murphy said there is an “outcomes crisis” in higher education driven by poor graduation rates and high numbers of student loan defaults.
“When I say the federal government has failed students, I mean we have failed students at every type of college — public, private, for-profit and nonprofit,” he said at an event organized by the think tank Third Way.
Senate lawmakers are in the early stages of negotiating a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, and accountability could be the sticking point in reaching an agreement.
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