Gerard Scimeca and Kenny Golden column: Supporting choice in higher education for America’s veterans – Richmond Times-Dispatch
During a recent U.S. Senate hearing, Education Secretary Betsy Devos testified, “The vast majority of students today do not pursue a traditional four-year college degree. … We must urgently rethink our approach to higher education.”
Devos is right; students today are a diverse group and are taking varied and divergent paths in higher education to prepare for their future. This especially includes our nation’s veterans.
Every year thousands of veterans return home with the education equivalent of a “golden ticket,” GI Bill tuition assistance they can put toward a degree, and hopefully a secure and successful career.
But veterans are facing a new battle at home as a handful of Democratic lawmakers are waging a political campaign against many of the for-profit institutions that have ably provided degrees and job placement to tens of thousands of veterans.
Leading the charge in the U.S. House of Representatives is Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott, D-3rd, who now serves as the chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor