May 18, 2010

Spending on Political Influence by For-Profit Colleges

By Jeffrey Brainard

For-profit college groups are significant players among all educational organizations in their use of campaign contributions to curry favor in Washington, a Chronicle analysis shows.

We examined expenditures on those gifts and on lobbying by the largest and best-known for-profit colleges and their trade group, the Career College Association, in the 2009 calendar year and the first quarter of 2010.

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