Trump Admin Gave Millions In Grants To Students At Unaccredited For-Profit Pentecostal-Run “Art Colleges”

The Washington Post reports:

A trove of documents released Tuesday by the House Education and Labor Committee shows the Education Department provided $10.7 million in federal loans and grants to students at the Illinois Institute of Art and the Art Institute of Colorado even though officials knew the for-profit colleges were not accredited and ineligible to receive such aid.

The documents build on prior reports from the committee describing efforts by Education Department officials to shield Dream Center Education Holdings, owner of the Art Institutes and Argosy University, from the consequences of lying to students about the accreditation of its since-closed schools.

Now it appears the Education Department tried to shield itself from an ill-fated decision to allow millions of dollars to flow to those schools. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.), chairman of the House Education Committee, is threatening to subpoena Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

And you knew this was part of it:

The Dream Center is a Christian non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in Los Angeles, California, established in 1994. Since 2017, it has also operated a system of colleges, many of which have run into financial and regulatory trouble. Matthew Barnett is co-founder of the Dream Center and senior pastor of the Angelus Temple, a Pentecostal megachurch of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles.