The New York Times is running two separate articles that both cover various nuances of the GI Bill. One of the articles asserts, “The debate about a college’s tax status isn’t likely to tell us much about veterans’ prospects. Why should we care about whether a college is public, not-for-profit or proprietary? What we should care about is whether the college and its programs are delivering value to veterans and taxpayers.”
In another piece the focus differs: “The primary problem here is not whether an organization is for-profit or non-profit: it’s that all money is not yet created equal. Colleges are allowed to count military tuition assistance and G.I. Bill payments as ‘private’ sources of funding, like the students’ tuition payments, rather than as the government funds they actually are. And for every $1 a school receives from “private” sources it’s eligible to accept $9 more in government funds supporting other students.”
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