Students need every opportunity to get ahead, particularly in this difficult economy.
At a time when Congress should be focused on job creation and strategies to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s jobs, it is instead targeting private-sector higher-education providers that serve about 3 million students a year. The result could be more jobs lost and fewer Americans getting the education they need to secure good jobs.
Many for-profit schools are serving those least well-served by traditional higher education. Particularly in such tough economic times, it is with low-income and minority students that our nation is failing.
Let’s stop singling out sectors of higher education for unfair, unbalanced congressional hearings and discriminatory rules. Let’s start focusing on steps that will improve educational access, opportunity and quality for all Americans.
My hometown station, FOX Chicago, recently dared to question what is perhaps America’s most sacrosanct institution: the public library. Are libraries a waste of taxpayer money?, the station asked, managing to irritate people on both sides of the aisle.
You know they’re on a no-holds-barred offensive on big government when they go for your local library. When the internet is everywhere and paperbacks are cheap, who needs a library anymore?
FYI, FOX Chicago. Not everyone has home access to the internet. I know, it’s a surprise, given the hoards of people navigating downtown Chicago in Brooks Brothers suits with only their iPhones as company, but much of the city and the nation still doesn’t have internet access.
Among Chicagoans, 40 percent of people don’t have regular access to the internet. Of those, 25 percent have no access at all. In a time where people’s wallets are getting thinner, the internet can be one of the first things to go.
Take a look at this riveting investigative journalism:
