Sen. Tom Harkin’s New GAO Report Send For-Profits Tanking

Before the controversy surrounding his earlier investigative report on for-profit education has wound down, Senator Tom Harkin is scheduled to release another report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today, on the for-profit education sector. It may be recalled that Harkin commissioned an earlier report, dated August 4, 2010 by the GAO, which was highly critical of the recruiting practices of for-profit colleges and universities, in fact, it all but called the practices fraudulent. These conclusions were drawn on the basis of 28 key investigative “scenarios.” Unfortunately, this report was exposed to be full of errors, and in fact subsequent…