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Baobab

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1. There CAN NOT be any such thing as a "formerly for profit college" in the US now thanks to policy

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Mar 17, 2016, 07:03 PM

Mar 2016

stupidity.

In 1995 - 1998 we signed on to a huge world tr ade organizationservicesdeal that basically pledged the US to allow gradual incremental privatization of almost all public services based on certain rules with only the narrowest exceptions, which education in the US clearly does not qualify for.

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There CAN NOT be any such thing as a "formerly for profit college" in the US now thanks to policy Baobab Mar 2016 #1