End Washington's war on technical schools

This month, I introduced the Promoting Access and Revenue Integrity Through Institutional Transparency Act, the PARITY Act. The bill does one thing: It repeals the federal government’s discriminatory 90/10 rule and finally puts technical schools on a level playing field with the rest of higher education.

For years, federal regulators have bent the rules to serve political interests rather than students, and the 90/10 rule is a textbook example. It applies to one narrow slice of higher education, the institutions that train America’s nurses, electricians, mechanics, and welders. They alone must prove that at least 10% of their revenue comes from nonfederal sources. Public and private nonprofit universities are exempt.