Federal Government Cracks Down on Beauty Schools And Other For Profit Colleges

Career oriented programs often target first-generation, low-income, and minority students for recruitment and leave them with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. But new federal regulations go into effect today that could take funding away from 60% of Illinois’ for-profit schools unless they’re able to improve performance. Reset sits down with Amy Qin, WBEZ data reporter, Esther Yoon-Ji Kang, WBEZ race, class, and communities desk and Lisa Kurian Philip, WBEZ higher education reporter who investigated these practices. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.