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Higher Education Coordinating Commission asks committee for authority to seek injunctions against noncompliant private career schools
Summary
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission told the House committee it needs authority to seek circuit-court injunctive relief when private career schools are nonresponsive to licensure and consumer-protection efforts; no vote was taken and the committee closed the public hearing.
Kyle Thomas, director of legislative and policy affairs for the Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HACC), appeared Feb. 6 to request support for House Bill 3027. Thomas said HB 3027 would give HACC authority to go to circuit court to seek injunctive relief when private, non-degree-granting career schools fail to participate in the state’s licensure system or are otherwise nonresponsive.
Thomas told the committee HACC regulates roughly 180–200 private career schools that…
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