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Schwarzenegger Administration to Protect Students From Predatory Trade School Practices by Voluntary Compliance With Old Law Until a New One is Passed
By Carrie Lopez
Director
California Department of Consumer Affairs
The California Department of Consumer Affairs responds to yesterday's article "Tragic Collapse Of State Oversight Of For-Profit Career Schools In California With Assembly Defeat Of SB 823" and lists ways my Department will continue to provide protections in the face of failed legislation.
The Department of Consumer Affairs will continue to work proactively to help ensure student consumer protection in the wake of the failure of SB 823 on Monday. Since the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 sunsetted on June 30, 2007, the Department has worked to encourage schools to voluntarily agree to comply with the law as it existed prior to June 30, 2007. We are hopeful that schools will continue to do so.
The Department of Consumer Affairs stands ready to create a new bureau to ensure effective student protections and effective regulation of private postsecondary education, and expects legislation to do so will be drafted with clear expectations and direction for schools and students so they understand their responsibilities and their rights.
In the meantime, the Department of Consumer Affairs will continue to do all we can to ensure student protection. We will continue to take questions and complaints from students, and to work with schools to develop and refine best practices.
My Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) has worked proactively to ensure student consumer protection during the sunset and will continue to do so while legislative action is still pending.
My department's record on PPVE:
* DCA has tendered voluntary agreements with 1,725 California schools.
These schools agreed to comply with the law that was in existence prior to June 30, 2007 and to make the agreement public for their staff and students to see. A complete list of all the schools can be found here.
* DCA has retrieved $4.7 million for students with grievances against private postsecondary vocational schools and worked with lenders to forgive 80 student loans.
Claims and complaints continue to be reviewed by DCA staff and will be tracked until the new bureau can be established.
* DCA has hosted 19 workshops for staff and students with over 700 participants statewide.
DCA also answers daily telephone calls and email inquiries and has developed student informational brochures. DCA also works closely with the Department of Education and with students from schools that closed to help them explore their options.
* DCA will continue to encourage students to make informed decisions.
The Department will continue to work with schools to make sure students have protections in place and to urge schools to operate-even without the force of the law-in an open and ethical manner.
Carrie Lopez was appointed Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) in April of 2007 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. DCA is home to more than 40 boards, bureaus and commissions. The department issues licenses in more than 100 businesses and 200 professional categories including doctors, contractors, boxers, cosmetologists, and auto repair facilities. Carrie Lopez was formerly the Executive Director of the Coro Foundation and was a Legislative Aide to Senator Nicholas Petris. Lopez holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and World Politics from the University of California, Davis and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She also serves as the Co-Founder and current Chair of the HOPE Leadership Institute, a statewide network of Latinas who are actively influencing policy issues and the political process throughout California.
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WHEN CLICKING ON "here" to obtain a list of 1,725 schools, there is no list provided. Can you fix this?
---quoted from your text above----
* DCA has tendered voluntary agreements with 1,725 California schools.
These schools agreed to comply with the law that was in existence prior to June 30, 2007 and to make the agreement public for their staff and students to see. A complete list of all the schools can be found here.
Posted by: LELAN at July 3, 2008 04:26 PM
Lelan: That was the linke I was given by the author of the article. Clicking on the page, and then searching around, I eventually came to http://www.bppve.ca.gov/forms_pubs/voluntaryagreelist.pdf which has the information on the schools.
Posted by: Frank D. Russo at July 4, 2008 01:25 PM
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