The Education Department has ordered a Tennessee-based proprietary school to repay the government nearly $750,000 in Pell Grant funds.
The department said that to qualify for bigger Pell Grants than it deserved, the school had “inflated” the cost of the tuition it charged at 16 correctional facilities where it offers vocational training. Officials at the school, Branell College, said they would appeal.
The review covered Branell operations in prisons in Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Tennessee from 1989 to 1991. In addition to the $749,583 in Pell Grants, the department said the school must repay $58,122 from other federal student-aid and loan programs that it was not entitled to receive.
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