SANTA ANA, Calif. — Mother of four Miriam Villatoro had been unemployed for months, squeaking by on food stamps and government assistance, when she started getting mailings from Everest College. The brochures urged her to enroll so she could start a career in the in-demand medical field. Soon the school started calling, too, and Villatoro, 32, decided to try it out. After all, it was close to her house and promised a way back into the workforce. So on July 30, in a glassy, convex office building in downtown Santa Ana, she attended her first day of an eight-month medical administrative assistant program. "I want to better myself," she said after class. "I want something for my kids." What Villatoro says she didn't know was that the Santa Ana campus was one of the 85 sites in the Corinthian Colleges network that was put up for sale earlier that month; another dozen campuses will eventually shut down through a "teach-out" (meaning after their students finish their degrees). Corinthian operates colleges in 25 states under the names Everest, Heald, and WyoTech, and has another handful of campuses in Canada (which the company is also putting up for sale). The for-profit chain… Read full this story
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