Marathon Pundit: Campus Progress reports on career college issue--while fighting for-profit schools

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Campus Progress reports on career college issue--while fighting for-profit schools

Last month Al From, the founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, wrote an opinion piece about the Obama administration's attack on the for-profit education industry for the Wall Street Journal.

Which caught the attention of some libs, as the Daily Caller reports this morning.

Campus Progress, an online magazine produced by liberal think tank the Center For American Progress, has been out front in its reporting on the for-profit schools issue, publishing a series of stories alleging conflicts of interest and disclosure problems among Democratic consultants working, or allegedly working, on the issue.

For instance, Campus Progress editor Kay Steiger recently published a piece denouncing Al From, founder of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, for publishing an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal without disclosing that a lobbying firm. From consults for has for-profit colleges as clients.

The article didn't provide any evidence. From consulted on the for-profit schools issue for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a firm with over $27 million in revenues in 2010 and 171 clients.

Meanwhile, Campus Progress is also part of a coalition of liberal groups that include a wide array of unions and a dozen members of Congress lobbying the Obama administration for strict regulations of for-profit colleges.