‘Wasted money’: How career training companies scoop up federal funds with little oversight

Image caption: For-profit workforce training programs receive millions in federal money, but operate with little oversight from the Department of Education. Image credit: Camilla Forte / The Hechinger. Article by Meredith Kolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz. The Hechinger Report – February 25, 2023.

Dora Bray Magilke had been unemployed for over a month when someone from her local career center in Branson, Missouri, reached out in the summer of 2020 with an offer. Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts. […]

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