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Graduate Students Protest Tax Plan; A House Proposal Would Boost For-Profit Colleges

Those development, plus the results of our investigative reporting on a Washington, D.C., high school and more in the weekly education roundup.
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Our weekly education news roundup is back! And what a week it was.

Higher Education Act proposals in the House

"One of the biggest winners in the new higher education legislation is the for-profit college industry." That's according to , which got an of the House Republican proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act this week. This is the main federal and is 542 pages long.

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