Quality of vet education, for-profit college controversy could be clarified by new data

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Quality of vet education, for-profit college controversy could be clarified by new data
Nov. 6, 2014 - 03:54PM
By George Altman
Staff writer

After years of claims — backed up by little hard data — that some schools have been providing current and former service members poor educations for their education benefits, federal officials may be on the verge of coming out with information that could help distinguish the good schools from the bad.

Curtis Coy, a deputy undersecretary with the Veterans Affairs Department, said his agency could release school-by-school, veteran-specific data on a host of academic success and outcome measures as soon as January.
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In an email, DoD said it plans to release several categories of statistics to track how active-duty service members do in school, to include a graduation rate that takes a special approach to accounting for part-time students. DoD said these stats will be coming next year, but could not say approximately when in 2015.
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