By Paul Elias
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a for-profit college company of misrepresenting job placement rates, false advertising and other deceptive practices to lure low-income residents to take out student loans to attend its schools.
The lawsuit filed Thursday against Corinthian Colleges Inc. was part of a larger investigation of the entire for-profit college industry, state Attorney General Kamala Harris said in San Francisco.
Santa Ana-based Corinthian operates Everest, Heald and WyoTech colleges.
The two schools have a combined 81,000 students nationwide and 27,000 students in California.
Harris said the majority of those students are minorities in their mid-20s with annual incomes of about $20,000. Many are single mothers, Harris said.
“Corinthian College was serving not as an educator but as a predator of some of the most vulnerable people in our community,” Harris said.
Company spokesman Kent Jenkins said Corinthian was disappointed that Harris filed the lawsuit because it has been cooperating with the attorney general’s office for nine months. He said the company will fight the lawsuit.
“We are proud of the career and technical education that our 15,000 employees provide to more than 80,000 students in the United States and Canada,” he said.
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