“Toomey served on the board of the online school… Invested thousands of dollars in it and appeared in it’s promotional materials”
Now, Toomey “is co-sponsoring a bill that would roll back regulations on for-profit colleges”
A report from Huffington Post disclosed new details about the for-profit college Senator Pat Toomey served on the board of, helped to promote and continues to invest in. As TIME previously revealed, Toomey is connected to the Trump-like for-profit college known as Yorktown University, and this latest report adds disturbing details about the institution.
Key points:
“Toomey served on the board of the online school Yorktown University from 2007 to 2009, invested thousands of dollars in it and appeared in its promotional materials. Yorktown, founded in 2001 as a conservative counterweight to mainstream schools, offered courses that railed against political correctness, feminism, egalitarianism and multiculturalism.”
“McGinty is making a campaign issue out of Toomey’s involvement with Yorktown because the senator is co-sponsoring a bill that would roll back regulations on for-profit colleges.”
“Yorktown’s curriculum included unconventional classes. One online lecture Yorktown promoted in 2012 warned parents of the “dangers” of gender studies programs at other universities.”
“Your daughter will reject the religious and moral codes you raised her with,” a press release for the lecture warned. “Your daughter will distance herself from family and friends. Your daughter will change her appearance, and may even change her sexual orientation. Your daughter will end up hating you (her father) and pitying you(her mother). After your daughter has completed her reeducation, you will certainly be out tens of thousands of dollars and very possibly lose your daughter.”
Read the full Huffington Post story here.
“Senator Toomey offered his name and his money to this organization, and continues to be among its investors, so he owes an explanation for the sexist and skewed ideology it promotes,” said Lauren Passalacqua, DSCC National Press Secretary. “Putting aside the ‘bizarre’ courses, this for-profit college is among those that’s left students in more debt but without the skills to get ahead. It’s wrong for Senator Toomey to try to profit off of it, and worse still that he’s using his position in the Senate to try to shield these businesses from regulation.”
