Veterans Affairs moves to strip California’s power in fight over for-profit schools – The Sacramento Bee
The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to strip California of its contract to regulate GI Bill benefits, denying the state a power it has used in the past to investigate alleged abuses by for-profit colleges and to hand down sanctions.
The break between the federal VA and the state-funded California Department of Veterans Affairs highlights a rift between the two organizations over how the state has used its authority to regulate a federal program that sends billions of dollars every year to veterans for career training and higher education.
The VA wants California to catch up on compliance surveys that track whether schools are paid accurately, according to letters it has sent to the state that fault it for failing to conduct enough of them.