Update: Researcher on For-Profit Schools Says She Disclosed Tie to Investment Firm
Last week, we reported that an unnamed investment firm had paid a researcher to draft a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan alleging that for-profit colleges and universities were signing up students from homeless shelters.
Several shelter officials who the researcher recruited to sign the letter told us they were unaware she was working for a firm that might stand to profit if Duncan's department cracked down on the schools, as it is considering under rules proposed today to protect students from taking on too much debt.
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