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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

It would strike me that the purpose of these educational opportunities is to offer to servicemembers and their families two or three things.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

And third, it is just could be for the sake of education, just to learn something that you did not know.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

I take it from that, that you believe that one of the effective elements of leadership is education.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

You know, we ought to give them a break in life. They are doing what we ask them to do.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

It really is not a credible accreditation process for most of your schools.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

I think it is Government money. It is in our appropriation bill.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

No more than 90 percent of your revenues can come from the Federal Government.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

And if the Department received complaints from military servicemembers about the quality of education that was being offered at a school, would that be taken into consideration?

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

I am still waiting for a change in practices.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

The one point that we would make consistently is that it didn't have a lot of teeth because there was no obligation on behalf of the colleges and the universalities or the ed centers to address those particular recommendations that would…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

The President's Executive order and the Department of Education's launch of the college scorecard suggests that we are moving in a different direction to give more information to students about the quality of courses and their outcomes.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

So why have you drawn that line or why do you think that line has been drawn?

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

And you say there are more than 3,000 institutions that offer courses to any number of members of the military.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

You have an organization that accredits for-profit schools and they accredit one another.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 11, 2013

The numbers I read suggest that out of the substantial Federal revenues going to for-profit schools, 22 percent, on average, is used for marketing purposes.

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