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From Adam Echelman., Ross Teseira and Erika YesCalmness

This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

The California legislators and the Prosecutor General have laughs at some career colleges with profit and commercial schools as predatory and deceptive. But beyond several High -profile lawsuitsThe state is struggling to regulate them.

Calmatters released an instrument To help current and future students seek the disciplinary history of the private school and its status of licensing.

Our instrument is considering public information about nearly 2000 schools inspected by the California Bureau for Private Post -Bar Education, which is largely responsible for the licensing and discipline of private colleges of the state. These schools collectively served 530,000 students in 2023, according to Matt Woodcheke, a spokesman for the Bureau.

If the problems of the school are so severe that the desk cancels its license, then it is no longer allowed to enroll new students. In most cases, however, the bureau disciplines a school, but allows him to keep his license, at least temporarily. These schools may also face civil and criminal cases, disciplinary action by their accreditation agencies and investigations from the US Department of Education.

Before the bureau, such government agencies had a “long and difficult past” as they struggled to regulate colleges with a profit in California, the California Audit Service wrote in Report for 2014S It has not changed much, the report notes, as the bureau “consistently failed to fulfill its responsibility to protect the interests of society”. In one case, the audit found that the bureau had taken more than a year to respond to a complaint about an disapproved flight school, which illegally sponsored visas and charged $ 30,000 for training without providing any flight training. The audit recommended that the desk make numerous, immediate changes to its operational policies, but its problems remain.

In 2018, CalMatters announced that the desk still took almost a year and a half, average, In order to finish with the complaint investigation Against schools with profit, a delay that forced at least one student to miss a deadline to qualify for forgiveness for a loan. In the same year, state legislators introduced new bills in an attempt to Increasing the supervision of schools with profitEspecially since the Trump administration returned many federal regulations. In the end, few of the proposed state bills passedS

In a Recent investigationCalmatters found it took years to cancel the licenses of some schools, despite messages on issues such as unskilled teachers and fraud. As the Bureau of complaints, these schools continued to enroll students and receive public subsidies, violation of state policy. Today, it is still difficult to find details about the licensing and disciplinary past of the institutions under her clock. The desk uses complex, legal terminology and presents information on individual pages. While this website is “not perfect,” said Bureau chief Deborah Kokarin, “This is all -encompassing”: the site must have documentation for any past violation or license edition dating back to 2010.

“We have to move to the 21st century,” she said, adding that the agency will update its data system this year, facilitating students to view.

Other challenges. The desk is facing a “Essential” financial deficit This could amount to $ 11 million by the budget year 2028-29, writes Cokrine to the lawmakers of California last year. This financial forecast “threatens the ability of the Bureau to protect consumers” and requires “immediate action”, she writes. The legislature has not yet responded to Cochrane’s letter.

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