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Guest AuthorApril 26, 2015

Florida’s schools are supposed to prepare our students for success in life. Whether pursuing higher education or entering the workforce, we expect that students are ready for the real world based on what they learn in the classroom. But there is one area where we are perpetually failing the next generation: financial literacy and managing […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 27, 2014

In the news: Strippers listed as “admissions representatives” were hired to recruit students for a dodgy for-profit Florida trade college that FBI raids eventually put out of business. That’s the shocker in a federal lawsuit the Miami Herald reported recently. According to the suit, the school “purposely hired attractive women and sometimes exotic dancers and […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 9, 2014

In the news: Strippers listed as “admissions representatives” were hired to recruit students for a dodgy for-profit Florida trade college that FBI raids eventually put out of business. That’s the shocker in a federal lawsuit the Miami Herald reported last week. According to the suit, the school “purposely hired attractive women and sometimes exotic dancers […]

Tag: college debt

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Martin Dyckman: Innocent students exploited by some for-profit schools

Martin Dyckman: Admissions ‘fraud’ adds to college debt