OK, you mean Federal aid in the form of Pell grants and Stafford loans.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:37 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > > Raghu writes: > >> "The for-profit "colleges" are outright scams. They are not colleges. > >> They consume 25% of all Federal aid dollars which should be a national > >> scandal, > > > > Where does that number come from? > > It looks . . . wrong. > > > > > The number is scandalously large, but it is correct. See for e.g.: > > http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/16/business/la-fi-for-profit-colleges-20100816 > > "Although just 10% of college students attend for-profit schools, the > schools collect nearly 25% of the $24 billion the government allocates > each year to fund Pell grants and Stafford loans." > > -raghu. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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