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![This week’s round-up: Flunking for-profit colleges, wreck-it reps, and shining some sunlight on Congress](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/08/24/FBcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
This week’s round-up: Flunking for-profit colleges, wreck-it reps, and shining some sunlight on Congress
This week’s FOIA round-up shows a light at the end of the tunnel amidst shady for-profit colleges and a local lawmakers accident prone behavior. Plus, a bill to bring some long-overdue transparency to Congress.
![Under Betsy DeVos, the Department of Education leaves transgender protections up to the schools](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/01/29/SupportCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Under Betsy DeVos, the Department of Education leaves transgender protections up to the schools
Early last year, we submitted non-discrimination policies regarding transgender students to all 50 states Department of Education as well as a few major cities across the U.S. We received 50 very different responses, varying from merely suggested policies to fully formed plans with structure and consequence.
![FOIAing the Trump Administration: scheduling priorities and declassification via tweet](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/11/27/trump.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
FOIAing the Trump Administration: scheduling priorities and declassification via tweet
Many impactful stories about the Trump administration began with FOIA requests for administration figures’ calendars, meeting schedules, and visitor logs. This week, we take a look at what these logs and calendars have revealed about administration priorities, as well as an interesting FOIA lawsuit based on Trump’s tweet.
![GAO not releasing details on collection agency with financial ties to Betsy DeVos' contested bid with the Department of Education](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/11/01/bb.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
GAO not releasing details on collection agency with financial ties to Betsy DeVos’ contested bid with the Department of Education
If a company is going to be reimbursed for fees associated with filing bid protests against an agency headed up by a person with whom they’ve done business in the past, both the process by which the protests came to be sustained and any reimbursements paid to the company ought to be a matter of public record. In the case of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Performant Financial Corporation, that isn’t the case.
![Over two-thirds of all Title IX cases that have ever been resolved were a result of guidelines Betsy DeVos just rescinded](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/10/13/BetsyCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Over two-thirds of all Title IX cases that have ever been resolved were a result of guidelines Betsy DeVos just rescinded
A recently-released list of all closed Title IX complaints regarding sexual assault at postsecondary institutions shows that over two-thirds of all cases that have ever been resolved came after the 2011 Dear Colleague letter was introduced - making Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ decision to rescind those guidelines all the more frustrating.