Kentucky Dem's lame attack on for-profit colleges

The Democrats are continuing their war on career colleges. Here's a new twist--rather than the Obama administration eggheads attacking the for-profit schools, now its Kentucky's attorney general.

From Big Government:

With a finite – and as far as most Democrats are concerned, insufficient – supply of taxpayer funds out there, its always interesting to see the choices that politicians with the power to spend the money make.

Take Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, for example. Yes, that Jack Conway, of 'Aqua Budda' fame. Conway has been on the warpath against for-profit colleges, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funds to mount an investigation against seven academic institutions in the state.

Conway’s investigation recently got a big break. The smoking gun? Owensboro-based Daymar College seems to have overcharged students for textbooks. That's right; apparently Daymar encouraged students to purchase textbooks in the college bookstore even though they were available more cheaply through other retailers.

For anyone who has been to college this quarter-century, the textbook charges are laughable. Every school, from community colleges all the way up to the ritziest private universities, tries to snooker students into buying their textbooks at the bookstore then they could easily get them for less on Amazon.com.

Let me add to the textbook ripoff conversation: A teaching assistant asked us once in class at the University of Illinois in the early 1980s, "Did you ever wonder why that book store on Wright Street has awnings? Well, during the anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1960s, students just didn't throw rocks at the administration building's windows, they were angry about high textbook prices too."

Nothing to see here folks, move along...

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