DeVos Offers a Lifeline to For-Profit Law School That Hired Her Former Adviser

"The dream for for-profit colleges is unfettered access to federal money," said Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher-education policy at the Washington-based policy organization New America and a former Education Department official in the Obama administration. The agency under DeVos, she said, seems to be relaxing the Obama-era policies that for-profit colleges had said disproportionately affected them, handing a "huge win" to Charlotte Law.