After weeks of complaints by Republicans who support the bank-based system of distributing federally subsidized college student loans, the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Inspector General has agreed to look into the question of whether department officials have been improperly lobbying colleges to support a bill that would channel all government-backed student loans through the department’s direct-lending system. The review will begin “as soon as staff resources are available,” the acting inspector general said.
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2 Responses to Auditor Agrees to Probe Whether Education Department Is Lobbying for Bill
jaysanderson - December 15, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I’m sure they’ll get right on that. It will sound something like “Did you lobby any colleges”? “Well, that depends on the definition of word college–if, by college you refer to places of learning, like public libraries, then yes, I support libraries, I go to libraries, and I have checked out books at libraries…books on global warming and polar bears, and I want to help, so YES, I support efforts to help polar bears.”
karennokill - January 10, 2010 at 2:39 am
Sally Stroup still today is a big lobbyist for “for-profit” colleges and universities! She jumps back and forth between Congress and the DOE to re-write education laws that pave the way for for-profits. Education laws are being re-written so that for-profit colleges and universities can operate only to make profits. This is sad for graduates of for-profit colleges and universities because they are left with a worthless degree and large student loan debts.The University of Phoenix is the biggest joke of all. Without Sally Stroup’s help, the university wouldn’t be able to earn $8 billion dollars over a period of 8 years.Get an auditor to publish accounting information of the University of Phoenix before 2002 and it’s annual revenue would not even be close to $10 million dollars. Around 2002, education laws were re-written, changed, and “lobbied” by Sally Stroup. Just last year, the University of Phoenix managed to rake in another $3 billion dollars! Thank you Sally Stroup for allowing “diploma mills” to operate in the United States.Here’s information about Sally Stroup:http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/stroup.html