Inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. No ivy covered walls, no decades of pedigree, no rigid structure requiring students to live nearby, taking specific classes at specific times of the day or year, and lenders willing to hem minimally qualified students afford a Higher Education. Forprofit colleges took part in a massive run up of people that wanted more and outmanoeuvred the not for profit peer, who offered programs that did not admit the lives of working people, parents and other aspiring students that had not met with a lot of success. As Michael Shure tells us, they are under scrutiny and an uncomfortable spotlight. Turns out they have friends in high places. We are Corinthian Colleges. Democratic senator richard durban is baulking about forprofit colleges, an industry that he and others say are rife with fraud. They are overcharged. Students are in so much debt or they have worthless diplomas. Reporter the bankruptcy of Corinthian Colleges shows fraud and decepti
Baseball, we will tell you about a new Community Project in chicago. Developing news out of afghanistan today, taliban claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing attacking the convoy in the capitol kabul. As we look at the first pictures coming through we will get Jennifer Glasse in kabul to tell us a little bit more about what happened today, jennifer. Reporter kamal, it happened in the area just before noon here in the east part of kabul. The target of the attack a nato convow an Armored Vehicle where a couple of members of Parliament Live and nato tells us there has been no nato deaths and eyewitnesses at the scene told us there were at least three afghan casualties with the bomb. And plumes of smoke could be seen across the city and windows were blown out of many buildings in the area. It seems familiar jennifer in the sense of a recent attack i mean in the past week itself in kabul, similar sort of stuff. Thats right it was just a week ago on the airport road that a taliban car
One of biggest forprofit corporations, we ask if the schools are a good deal for students. Dollars and diploma, its inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. No ivy covered walls, no decades of pedigree, no rigid structure requiring students to live nearby, taking specific classes at specific times of the day or year, and lenders willing to hem minimally qualified students afford a Higher Education. Forprofit colleges took part in a massive run up of people that wanted more and outmanoeuvred the not for profit peer, who offered programs that did not admit the lives of working people, parents and other aspiring students that had not met with a lot of success. As Michael Shure tells us, they are under scrutiny and an uncomfortable spotlight. Turns out they have friends in high places. We are Corinthian Colleges. Democratic senator richard durban is baulking about forprofit colleges, an industry that he and others say are rife with fraud. They are overcharged. Students are in
The inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Just today a federal Appeals Court upheld a Lower Court Decision to block porto ricos municipalities from declaring bankruptcy. Theres probably too many for a population of over 3. 5 million. 78 municipalities some as small as 10 and 15,000. They are traditional units of government. Many older than the u. S. Their inability to get out from under crushing debt may slow down a resizing of the government rather than bringing the day closer. Robert ray visited the island as the fiscal crisis tightened, and time and options are getting shorter. Reporter its the new fiscal year in porto rico, sales tax jumping to curb the crisis the reality i is more than 70 billion in debt looms. Robert ray, Al Jazeera America an emergency meeting between mayors and the governor looking for solutions and Common Ground on the biggest challenge the commonwealth faced. You guys are mayors you have a finger on the pulse, probably tighter than the governm
Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Just today a federal Appeals Court upheld a Lower Court Decision to block porto ricos municipalities from declaring bankruptcy. Theres probably too many for a population of over 3. 5 million. 78 municipalities, some as small as 10 and 15,000. They are traditional units of government. Many older than the u. S. Their inability to get out from under crushing debt may slow down a resizing of the government, rather than bringing the day closer. Robert ray visited the island as the fiscal crisis tightened, and shorter. Reporter its the new fiscal year in porto rico, sales tax jumping to curb the crisis, the reality i is more than 70 billion in debt looms. Robert ray, Al Jazeera America an emergency meeting between mayors and the governor looking for solutions and Common Ground on the biggest challenge the commonwealth faced. You guys are mayors, you have a finger on the pulse, probably tighter than the government has. Thats why we are here. Do you beli