Students at for-profit schools might soon have fewer protections in Kentucky
A proposal to significantly loosen oversight of for-profit colleges and schools in Kentucky has passed its first hurdle in the General Assembly, but some worried lawmakers say they hope to improve the final version of the proposal.
House Bill 281, sponsored by Rep. Phillip Pratt, R-Georgetown, would remove some requirements and standards that for-profit schools must meet to get a state license from the Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education, including those aimed at ensuring instructional and content quality. The changes would affect for-profit schools that do not offer four-year bachelor’s degrees.
At a House Education Committee meeting Tuesday, Rep. Reginald Meeks. D-Louisville, said he was extremely concerned.
“From what I understand from reading the bill, it looks like there are a number of critical areas we should be concerned about, ” Meeks said. “Qualifications of professors, qualifications of administrators, things like oversight of the academic programs, all those things will now not be regulated under the bill.”
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