Last summer,
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida asked the U.S. Department of Education to "demonstrate leniency" toward Corinthian Colleges by permitting the wealthy for-profit company to continue accessing millions of dollars in federal financial aid while it was cooperating with a federal investigation.
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"Senator Rubio felt it was important to protect the thousands of students in Florida from being punished and having their educations disrupted while the investigation was underway," Rubio spokeswoman Brooke Sammon told Bloomberg Politics in a statement. "His priority has always been to improve access to higher education options and increase transparency in higher education."
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Rubio is a noted supporter of "alternative" forms of higher education, describing them in various speeches and statements as a way to help middle class Americans deal with rising tuition costs in an era where college degrees are increasingly vital to success. In 2014, he introduced legislation to encourage federal agencies to hire people with "alternative educational experience."
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-29/marco-rubio-goes-to-bat-for-corinthian-colleges("Alternative educational experience", translated from Newspeak: getting credit in hiring for attending a worthless post-secondary school as if one had attended Stanford, MIT, or the University of Michigan).
Corinthian Colleges, which was far more effective at grabbing federally-insured college loans than at educating those who attended those overpriced diploma mills, has since folded.
