GAO Report Called Out By For-Profit Colleges

InsideHigherEd has an interesting post detailing a developing battle between the Government Accountability Office and a network of for-profit colleges. For those with little familiarity with the issue, the GAO accused the colleges of securing federal loans for their students, which the students were unable to pay back due to their perceived inability to get good enough jobs with the degrees.
In response to this, a for-profit college advocacy group released a report claiming that, “…only 14 findings are credible as written by the GAO out of 65 originally reported (an additional 14 findings cannot be confirmed)”. Intrigued by this, InsideHigherEd compared the new report to a series of long recorded conversations that the GAO also had access to and found out that, unsurprisingly, neither side was entirely correct. The blog found some errors in the GAO report, but also discovered that a few of the counter-report’s claims were greatly exaggerated. The GAO has already responded to the for-profit colleges’ claims, and a protracted battle seems almost certain at this point. How long, how far, and whether or not this will eventually be seen by courts, cannot be known.