Civil Right Groups Urge Congress to Protect ‘Gainful Employment’ Rule

Civil Right Groups Urge Congress to Protect ‘Gainful Employment’ Rule: Citing the need to protect students of color, a group of civil rights organizations Wednesday called on Congress to reject a House Republican plan that would prevent the Obama administration from issuing new rules on the operation of for-profit career colleges.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and other groups said the administration’s proposed “gainful employment” rules would take significant steps to rein in unsavory practices at some private career colleges. But they said a GOP amendment now pending in the House of Representatives would gut the gainful employment rule, leaving many at-risk students vulnerable to high levels of debt in low-quality education programs.