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California Law School Receives Millions In Federal Student Aid Despite Grade-Changing Scandal, Subpar Graduation Rates

Tori Richards

​An online law school owned by an Orange County trustee has continued to receive an accreditation that has been the gateway to millions of dollars in federal student aid — despite a grade-changing probe by the California State Bar and failure to meet the accreditor’s graduation standards.

In a series of emails from 2016, a State Bar official blasted Taft Law School for its policy of changing the grades of failing students, which enables them to take one of the nation’s toughest Bar exams. In one case, the revisions came five years after the courses ended.

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