HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. An Illinois-based for-profit higher education company says it has paid 492-thousand dollars to resolve U-S government findings of financial aid violations.
The payments by Career Education Corporation were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The U-S Department of Education had ordered the Hoffman Estates-based company in February to return 469-thousand dollars in federal money. The department said the company lacked proper documentation for aid provided to some students at the company’s Pennsylvania Culinary Institute in Pittsburgh.

Last month, the agency reached a settlement with the company’s Collins College in Tempe, Arizona. In that agreement, Career Education paid 23-thousand dollars without acknowledging wrongdoing.

An Education Department spokeswoman declined comment.www.kvoa.com

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