Ten thousand students, some just weeks from graduating, are reeling following Sunday’s shutdown of a number of private vocational colleges.
Orange County-based Corinthian Colleges, which operates 13 Everest and 12 Heald Colleges in California, Oregon and Hawaii, abruptly closed Sunday. Corinthian will also close its WyoTech and Everest colleges in Arizona and Rochester, N.Y. Under fire by the federal government, the company had been trying to sell off its colleges, but the final blow came when the U.S. Department of Education hit Corinthian with a 30-million dollar fine after it falsified job placement numbers. Tom Perumean, KABC NEWS.
