{"id":9554,"date":"2011-05-04T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2011-05-05T10:01:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:01:34","slug":"obama-dept-of-education-advances-its-toxic-gainful-employment-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9554\/obama-dept-of-education-advances-its-toxic-gainful-employment-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Dept. of Education Advances Its Toxic “Gainful Employment Rule”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s new political malfeasance from the Obama Administration.\u00a0 Its Department of Education has sent the destructive so-called “Gainful Employment Rule,”<\/a> which unfairly persecutes and effectively eliminates private college competition in higher education, over to the Office of Management and Budget for final review.<\/p>\n

In addition to its harmful effects, the Rule is also riddled with corruption<\/a>, from allegations of insider trading to defective Government Accountability Office reports.\u00a0 The Education Department\u2019s handling of this issue has been simply appalling.\u00a0 Even more outrageous is the fact that the Department has not made the most recent version of the Rule \u2013 the one that was just sent to OMB for final review – available to the public.<\/p>\n

In February, we applauded the House of Representatives when\u00a0it passed a bipartisan amendment to H.R. 1<\/a> that stated that \u201cno funds may be used to \u2018implement, administer or enforce\u2019 the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s proposed Gainful Employment rule, nor may the Department \u2018promulgate or enforce any new regulation or rule\u2019 that would have the same effect as the Gainful Employment rule.\u00a0 Unfortunately, however, that amendment was not included in the final budget.\u00a0 But the battle to preserve student choice and market freedom in higher education is far from over.<\/p>\n

At a time when our country has fallen behind in the rate of college graduates, we need competition in higher education now more than ever if we want to survive in an increasingly competitive world economy.\u00a0 The Rule is clearly not close to being ready for final review, and the Department of Education must\u00a0 reconsider its implications.\u00a0 Most particularly, its harmful impact on less wealthy and working students who rely on career colleges and ultimately on our economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s new political malfeasance from the Obama Administration.\u00a0 Its Department of Education has sent the destructive so-called “Gainful Employment Rule,” which unfairly persecutes and effectively eliminates private college competition in higher education, over to the Office of Management and Budget for final review. In addition to its harmful effects, the Rule is also riddled with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2193,1065,2170,2107,2465,2147,2192,2108,24],"class_list":["post-9554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-career-colleges","tag-department-of-education","tag-doe","tag-for-profit-colleges","tag-gainful-employment-rule","tag-gao","tag-government-accountability-office","tag-insider-trading","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9559,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions\/9559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}