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AP analysis: Most beauty school programs would be in jeopardy under US proposal
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FILE - Flags decorate a space outside the office of the education secretary at the Education Department, Aug. 9, 2017, in Washington. College programs that leave graduates underpaid or buried in loans would be cut off from federal money under a proposal issued Wednesday, May 17, 2023, by the Biden administration, but the rules would apply only to for-profit colleges and a tiny fraction of programs at traditional universities. - photo by AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File
Under a new proposal intended to protect students, nearly two-thirds of cosmetology certificate programs at for-profit colleges would would risk losing federal funding. So would over a third of such programs in massage therapy and dental support services. Overall, 22% of programs at for-profit schools would face a federal crackdown, according to an Associated Press analysis of data released by the U.S. Education Department.