Betsy DeVos's Education Department to Stop Investigating Betsy DeVos's Friends
PoliticsA team investigating fraud by for-profit colleges is getting defanged under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Coincidentally, some of DeVos’s top hires in the Department of Education are former deans, lawyers, and executives from for-profit colleges!
According to the New York Times, by the end of the Obama administration, the investigative team was looking into fraudulent job placement claims, advertising, and recruiting practices from several for-profit colleges, including DeVry University. Fast forward to the first few months of the Trump administration, and the DeVry investigation is put on the back burner. By summer of 2017, DeVos appointed Julian Schmoke—a former dean at DeVry—as the team’s supervisor, because this administration has a routine and flagrant disregard for even the most transparent of conflicts of interest.