Kentucky Attorney General Sues Another For-Profit College

Jack Conway, the attorney general of Kentucky, announced on Wednesday that his office had filed another consumer-protection lawsuit against a for-profit college over allegations that the institution deceived students by misrepresenting its job-placement numbers. Mr. Conway’s office filed the latest complaint, which is the fourth in his continuing investigation of for-profit colleges, against Spencerian College, a Kentucky institution with campuses in Lexington and Louisville. In a news release, Mr. Conway said the college had published job-placement rates that were far higher than those it reported to its accreditor, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. Mr. Conway’s office led an investigation that resulted in a settlement last summer in which an online marketer recruiting veterans on behalf of for-profit colleges agreed to pay $2.5-million and shut down one of its Web sites.