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The Department of Education instituted its new "gainful employment" rule this summer.

The purpose of the measure is to ensure students are finding good jobs after they graduate from for-profit schools, and aren't burdened with too much loan debt.

But as my report today on MPR News shows, an organization that represents almost 2,000 for-profit colleges across the country, four of them based in Minnesota,

 is suing the federal government in an effort to overturn the rule

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The Department of Education instituted its new “gainful employment” rule this summer. The purpose of the measure is to ensure students are finding good jobs after they graduate from for-profit schools, and aren’t burdened with too much loan debt. But as my report today on MPR News shows, an organization that represents almost 2,000 for-profit…

Some for-profit colleges fighting new gainful employment rule

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