• The Associated Press’s Christine Armario reports that for-profit colleges may lose federal student financial aid if their students don’t improve their payback rate.
• Daniel Luzer of Washington Monthly speculates on what the new federal regulations may mean for the for-profit schools.
• The Education Management Corporation has found errors in the Department of Education report that may determine whether or not federal student aid is lost.
• Michael Stafford of Inside Higher Ed reported that 193 vocational programs at 93 have failed to meet the gainful employment standards a school must meet in order to receive federal student aid.
• CNBC’s Herb Greenburg describes the for-profit colleges as “dazed by the data” supplied by the federal government on gainful employment of graduates.
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