Beginning in 2023, the American Accountability Foundation initiated a series of studies into the progressive groups working together to defend conventional liberal higher ed against nonideological career colleges.
This three-year [ongoing] study continues to expose a concerted initiative, underreported in the media, that threatens to limit student choice and advance the far- left’s mission of perpetuating campus riots, demanding free college, and eliminating career colleges from serving students.
Higher Ed Shakedown
Identified three progressive activist organizations and their dozens of top staff that masquerade as independent advocates for student interests, but whose real purpose is to act as the vanguard for the Biden-Harris Administration and liberal state attorneys general.
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The New Liberal Mega Donor
pulled back the curtain on the liberal network’s billionaire Enron alumni benefactor, John Arnold, who has funneled $20+ million into proxy organizations to support the defense of failed progressive universities, among other botched experiments that threatened community safety and jeopardized personal privacy.
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Dept. of Ed Watchlist
Once American voters booted the Biden/Harris Administration, AAF conducted a through review of liberal bureaucrats to ensure they couldn’t hide in Washington and subvert the Trump/McMahon plans to dismantle the agency and return its powers to states and local school
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Witch Hunt at the DOED
The origin story of AAF’s work was an expose on
Richard Cordray’s Witch Hunt at the Department of Education which revealed the weaponization of the Federal Student Aid Office to coerce students into traditional public and private four-year colleges. Cordray was dumped after AAF’s report was published and he was rightfully blamed for shifting FSA resources to pursuing career colleges and botching the rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), a national fiasco that delayed college decisions for tens of thousands of high school graduates.
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Higher Ed’s New Battleground: Left Regrouping in the States
For the last four years, the left leveraged the power of the Biden U.S. Department of Education, left wing non-profit lawfare groups, and allied Attorneys General to sue non-traditional colleges into submission. Now that President Trump is back in charge, they’re regrouping in the states. AAF knows it needs to continue, and redouble, its work investigating the left’s attack on career colleges.
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