Stephen Burd
Senior Writer & Editor, Higher Education
In 2007, California鈥檚 then-Attorney General Jerry Brown filed
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against Corinthian Colleges accusing the company of deliberately and persistently misleading prospective students and regulators about its schools鈥 job placement rates. Brown ultimately reached with Corinthian, requiring the giant for-profit higher education company to pay a $6.5 million fine and provide some restitution to students who had been deceived.
Corinthian, however, didn鈥檛 have to admit to any wrong-doing. Nor does it appear to have learned its lesson and changed its behavior.
On Thursday, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris聽(pictured) filed against Corinthian accusing the company of deliberately and persistently misleading prospective students and regulators about its schools鈥 job placement rates. 鈥淎ccording to the complaint, CCI advertised job placement rates as high as 100% for specific programs when, in some cases, there is no evidence that a single student obtained a job during the specified time frame,鈥 the attorney general’s office wrote in a .
For Corinthian Colleges, it鈥檚 like .”