Jury Awards Former Student $13 Million In Lawsuit Against For-Profit College

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“One of the more common complaints against for-profit colleges is that the institutions make promises to prospective students about job placement and salary that the schools don’t make good on. A woman in Missouri recently sued one such for-profit school, saying it misled her about its medical assistant program. She had been seeking somewhere between $2-4 million in damages, but the jury went ahead and awarded her $13 million.” …

Better than getting a job.

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What we need is many more of these suits. I hate lawsuits in general, but here they have a valuable role to play. Too bad Congress so snowed with money-proffering lobbyists to do anything significant about the recruiting abuses of for-profit colleges.