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Continuing its campaign against federal efforts to dramatically toughen oversight over for-profit colleges, an advocacy group on Wednesday sued the U.S. Government Accountability Office, accusing Congress's investigative arm of producing a "negligently written, biased and distorted report that foreseeably caused substantial financial injury" to the industry. The lawsuit by the Coalition for Educational Success, which accuses the GAO of engaging in "professional malpractice," stems from the highly publicized report by the agency last July that became the centerpiece of Senator Tom Harkin's investigation into the commercial college sector. GAO later released a revised version of the report that softened some of its findings (though not its underlying conclusions, Harkin and GAO officials insisted). The lawsuit against GAO follows a series of other steps that the coalition and associations of career colleges have taken to challenge the aggressive reviews that both Harkin and the Education Department have undertaken in the last 18 months.
