But is it too little too late? On Wednesday, members of the faculty at Argosys Chicago and Northern Virginia campuses told students that they had been fired and instructed to remove their belongings. Anyone can read what you share. WASHINGTON Dream Center Education Holdings, a subsidiary of a Los Angeles-based megachurch, had no experience in higher education when it petitioned the federal Education Department to let it. First Republic fallout: Democrats fume as regulators bail out yet another Federal judge rules Pennsylvania school district must allow After School Satan Al Franken blasts Supreme Court: Its illegitimate, Human brains show larger-than-life activity at moment of death, McConnell insists hes sitting out debt talks to disbelief. Buying a chain of schools aligns perfectly with our mission, which views education as a primary means of life transformation, Randall Barton, the foundations managing director, said when Dream Center announced its plan. Taylor Glascock for The New York. The news comes after Variety published a story this month about allegations . Seven Shocking College Admissions Scandals | TIME.com The department had in August agreed to release up to $50 million; Dream Center wanted more. Timeline: How Dream Center's higher ed bid went off the rails Robin Von Bokhorst, listed in legal filings as the foundations president, did not respond to requests for comment. But until then, Dream Center executives had reason to believe they had friends at the Education Department. That Dream Center executives characterize this as being about them is disingenuous but not surprising. To maintain their nonprofit status, the agreement gave Studio the right to pick a nonprofit to buy the schools. She also allowed several for-profit schools to evade even those loosened rules by converting to nonprofits. In 2019, the Department agreed to cancel approximately $11 million in student debt that it had illegally lent to Student Defense clients after concealing several schools loss of eligibility for federal funds. As the company hemorrhaged money and the closure of the campuses was imminent, that approval became critical and the Trump administration stepped in again. The government found that EDMC was running a high-pressure sales business that rewarded recruiters based on the number of students enrolled and that EDMC improperly benefited from federal grants and loans. While students scramble to figure out how to complete their degrees, experts on college oversight, lawyers and former department officials are asking why the Education Department didn't do more to prevent just this kind of outcome for Dream Center. The company closed 21 of the campuses in 2017 but left three open. The Dream Center, a Los Angeles nonprofit that had agreed to purchase Argosy University and the Art Institutes chain just 24 months earlier, closed its doors in March amid finger-pointing and recriminations between a court-appointed receiver, congressional Democrats and the Education Department. The House Education Committee issued subpoenas to career staff at the Education Department on Thursday seeking information regarding the federal agencys role in helping Dream Center Education Holdings as the for-profit college operator spiraled into insolvency. Dream Centers collapse was the first of the new deregulatory era. In March 2019, perhaps the biggest scandal in college admissions history broke when the Department of Justice, following a sting called Operation Varsity Blues, charged fifty people with fraud that enabled the children of wealthy parents to gain admission to colleges such as Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, UCLA, USC, and the University of Texas at Representative Robert C. Scott, a Virginia Democrat who is the chairman of the House Education Committee, unveiled a trove of documents, including internal communication between executives from Dream Center, in a letter to Ms. DeVos this month. But nobody legit will give you an entire degree based on your . The campuses have about 50,000 students enrolled in total. She called the Dream Center accreditation issue a messy and complex situation and said the accreditor had sent mixed messages about the status of Dream Centers schools. Although the Trump administration did eventually cut off federal aid to the chain of colleges and precipitate their collapse, Democrats say the department failed to respond to warning signs. The actions of Dream Center and the Department of Educations execution of its responsibility to protect students raise grave concerns, Mr. Scott wrote. Instead, it was facing a $38 million loss. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': Classic Shakespeare play returns to the Student Defense has represented students harmed by Dream Center colleges in litigation against the schools and the Department itself. In a rule-making process currently unfolding at the department, some are pushing for automatic triggers for the agreements to be written into federal regulations. More than a dozen others have been sold in the hope they can survive. The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill, by Krystal Ball, opinion contributor - 03/14/19 10:30 AM ET, by Amy K. Dacey and Janet Napolitano, opinion contributor, by Glenn C. 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