California sues for-profit school over 'false promises'
Source: Associated Press
Don Thompson, Associated Press
Updated 4:42 pm, Wednesday, November 29, 2017
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's attorney general sued an online, for-profit university Wednesday, alleging officials made false promises to entice students and illegally tried to collect their overdue debt.
The suit filed by Attorney General Xavier Becerra against San Diego-based Ashford University alleges the school and its publicly traded parent company, Bridgepoint Education Inc., used illegal business practices to deceive and defraud students, nearly three-quarters of whom never graduated.
The suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court says school representatives lied to prospective students over how much financial aid they could get, the costs of attending, how many academic credits from other schools would transfer to Ashford or from Ashford to other institutions, and about Ashford's ability to prepare students for careers including teaching, medical billing and social work.
It says many of the school's roughly 40,000 students had low incomes and were unable to pay their tuition and other debts, yet Ashford threatened students and imposed unlawful debt collection fees.
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here's your favored form of education in practice.
The GOPee wants not only to cripple legitimate higher education but also to continue unleashing the for profit scam school predators on aspiring students.
