US representatives Elise Stefanik and Virginia Foxx seized the spotlight, relentlessly attacking Harvard, Columbia and other top universities, portraying them as unsafe and incompetent.
A Guardian analysis of Federal Election Commission fillings and Open Secrets data finds Stefanik and Foxx have received over $300,000 from the industry, including lobbying groups and those associated with for-profit schools, since 2019. Foxx, the chair of the House education and labor committee, is the largest recipient of for-profit education money in Congress, having received about $270,000.
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A Guardian analysis of Federal Election Commission fillings and Open Secrets data finds Stefanik and Foxx have received over $300,000 from the industry, including lobbying groups and those associated with for-profit schools, since 2019. Foxx, the chair of the House education and labor committee, is the largest recipient of for-profit education money in Congress, having received about $270,000.
For-profit colleges fund lawmakers who led attack on top universities over campus protests
Critics say representatives Elise Stefanik and Virginia Foxx shield for-profit colleges from accountability
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