Pell grants & for profit colleges

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<p>Is this where our money should go?
[The</a> Associated Press: AP Impact: For-profit colleges haul in gov’t aid](<a href=“http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gKqtyRg7rHyINnnPNx_rCuBhUd2gD9C9B6KO0]The”>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gKqtyRg7rHyINnnPNx_rCuBhUd2gD9C9B6KO0)</p>

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Last year, the five institutions that received the most federal Pell Grant dollars were all for-profit colleges, collecting over $1 billion among them. That was two and a half times what those schools hauled in just two years prior, the AP found, analyzing Department of Education data on disbursements from the Pell program, Washington’s main form of college aid to the poor.

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<p>The industry is “an aggressive sales operation that has a voracious appetite for recruiting the poorest students,” said Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of AACRAO, a group representing admissions officers and registrars at traditional colleges. “The victims here are the students themselves and the taxpayers, who have to pick up the tab.”</p>

<p>I want to see graduation rates- I have heard of many students who are wasting their time and money at a school that doesn’t really prepare them for continued education.</p>