For-Profit Colleges Spend Big and Win Big on Capitol Hill

By STEPHEN BURD

In legislation that Republican Congressional leaders introduced in May to extend the law that governs most federal-student aid programs, for-profit colleges came out on top.

While student-loan-industry officials had to compromise on some provisions in the bill, HR 4283, to get others they really wanted, proprietary schools generally...

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