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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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…

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.

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

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

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

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.