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ByKimberlyHefling TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON Corinthian Colleges canceled classes Monday and shut down all of its remaining 28 ground campuses, displacing about 16,000 students, less than two weeks after the Ed- ucation Department an- nounced it was fining the for-profit institution $30 million for misrepresenta- tion. The Santa Ana, Califor- nia-based company said it was working with other schools to help students continue their education by making transcripts avail- able and coordinating with other educational institu- tions to accept them. The closures include Heald Col- lege campuses in Califor- nia, Hawaii and Oregon, as well as Everest and Wy- oTech schools in California, Arizona and New York. Corinthian was one of the country's largest for- profit educational institu- tions. It collapsed last sum- mer amid a cash shortage and fraud allegations. The Education Depart- ment contends that Co- rinthian failed to comply with requests to address allegations of falsifying job placement data and alter- ing grades and attendance records. It agreed to sell or close its campuses under pressure from the depart- ment. Students who attend a school that closes while they are enrolled may be el- igible to have their federal loans forgiven. Ted Mitch- ell, the undersecretary at the Education Department, said in a statement that the department "will immedi- ately begin outreach to Co- rinthian students to review all their options, which may include loan discharges for students whose school closed." The Education Depart- ment estimated that for- giving the federal student loans for all the current stu- dents would cost taxpayers a maximum $214 million. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Rep. Elijah Cum- mings, D-Md., and four other senators in a letter Monday encouraged the de- partment to "take immedi- ate action to identify and inform students with loans eligible for relief that they may qualify for discharge or cancellation." Earlier in April, the de- partment fined subsidiary Heald College, alleging the school had shown a pattern of falsifying post-gradua- tion employment data. In one instance, the company's Honolulu campus declared a student had found work in her chosen field of account- ing, even though adminis- trators knew she was work- ing at Taco Bell, the depart- ment said. Most of the company's former schools have been sold, and Corinthian at- tempted to sell Heald as well but was blocked by California attorney general Kamala Harris' refusal to provide prospective buyers with a release from liability. The company said Sun- day it had been in "ad- vanced negotiations" with several parties to sell the 150-year-old college and allow outside partners to let Everest and WyoTech students continue their education but was unsuc- cessful. "Unfortunately, the cur- rent regulatory environ- ment would not allow us to complete a transaction with several interested parties that would have allowed for a seamless transition for our students," Corin- thian CEO Jack Massimino said in a statement. The company also de- fended its work, saying its graduation and job place- ment rates "compared fa- vorably with community colleges" and that many of its students hadn't been able to get their needs met at a traditional higher edu- cation institution. A group of current and former Corinthian students have already petitioned the Education Department to waive their federal student debt based on the alleged misconduct. To highlight their plight, several have gone on a loan repayment "strike" and refused to pay back what they owe to the government. EDUCATION 28 r em ai ni ng C or in th ia n Co ll eg es c am pu se s cl os ed The Associated Press ALTURAS A tiny, casino- owning Native American tribe in Northern Califor- nia has pursued an unusual strategy to boost revenue: Adoption. The Alturas Rancheria in Modoc County has ad- opted five members — two of whom are non-Indian — in recent years, the Sacra- mento Bee reported. The new members have come with ambitious plans to make money, including a cigarette manufacturing plant. But the plans have fizzled out, and the ad- opted members have con- tributed to conflict among the tribe, according to the Bee. The fight has landed in state and federal courts, and it recently required the U.S. Postal Service to decide which of the feuding mem- bers was entitled to receive the tribe's mail. The adoption of non-In- dian people by a Native American tribe is unusual and raises concerns, ex- perts said. "It's not necessarily against the law to adopt a white person. But if there's no historical connection to the tribe, it sounds like a scam to take advantage of their membership for business reasons and ma- nipulate the tribal govern- ment," Howard Dickstein, one of the nation's foremost tribal lawyers, told the Sac- ramento Bee. The Alturas Ranche- ria has between three and seven members depending on who is counting, mak- ing it among the smallest of California's 68 casino tribes. The rancheria was started in 1924 with 20 acres east of Alturas that were purchased by the fed- eral Office of Indian Affairs for about 40 landless Indi- ans. Siblings Phillip and Wendy Del Rosa are the only two current tribal members who can trace their blood line to an orig- inal member of the 20-acre rancheria. Phillip Del Rosa said the tribe wanted to diversity its investments, which in- cluded the Desert Rose Ca- sino. In 2003, it adopted Darren Rose, a Karuk and Shasta Indian, to build a second casino at a much better location off Inter- state 5 in Yreka. It later adopted Calvin Phelps, a cigarette manu- facturer from North Caro- lina. Phelps was sentenced to 40 months in prison in 2014 after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges in- volving his North Carolina tobacco business. Wendy Del Rosa said Phelps re- mains a member of the tribe. But the second casino, cigarette business and other ventures put forward by the tribe's adoptees did not pan out, and the adoptees have now become part of tribal conflict, the Bee said. Phillip Del Rosa said he adopted Phelps and another man in part to stop another adoptee from trying to take over the tribe. Phillip Del Rosa and his sister are now feuding and have formed alliances with adoptees, the Bee reported. At stake is about $2 million a year in revenue, including $700,000 a year from the tribe's Desert Rose Casino. As the conflict goes on, federal and state officials have frozen hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds for the tribe. U.S. Postal Service Administra- tive Law Judge Gary E. Sha- piro ruled last month that Rose is entitled to receive the tribe's mail. Wendy Del Rosa said looking back now, the adop- tions were a mistake. "When Phillip and I took over, we didn't know what we were doing," she said. "We should never have ad- opted anybody into the tribe." NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Tiny tribe turns to adoption to boost revenue BRIANNGUYEN—THESACRAMENTOBEEVIAAP The building that would become the Desert Rose casino in Yreka is shown. By Don Thompson The Associated Press SACRAMENTO A federal judge on Monday refused to delay his order for Cal- ifornia to provide sex re- assignment surgery for a transgender inmate. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar made his ruling in response to a request by state corrections officials, who also have appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Department of Corrections and Rehabil- itation will now ask the 9th Circuit for a stay, said spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman. The state wanted Ti- gar to reconsider while it awaits a ruling from the appeals court in the case of Michelle-Lael Norswor- thy, 51, whose birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norswor- thy. It's just the second time a judge in the U.S. has di- rected a state prison sys- tem to provide the sur- gery. The previous order in a Massachusetts case was overturned and is be- ing appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In San Francisco, Tigar agreed with state officials that the case raises a seri- ous legal question. He said he granted Norworthy's re- quest, however, after con- cluding she is likely to ul- timately win her case and that she is suffering se- rious psychological and emotional harm in the meantime because her rights are being violated. PRISONS Judge won't delay order on inmate sex reassignment surgery The Associated Press CARMICHAEL A man sus- pected of shooting and critically wounding a woman surrendered Mon- day after a five-hour stand- off during which he fired at Sacramento County sher- iff's deputies, authorities said. The man, whose name wasn't immediately re- leased, was seen being taken from a duplex in handcuffs about 3 p.m. He wore a knit cap and a white mask over his mouth and nose. He didn't appear to be injured. Deputies were called to the duplex in the Sac- ramento suburb about 10 a.m., and they found a woman who had been shot in the neck. She was taken to a hospital in crit- ical condition. Kevin Williams lives near where the shooting happened. 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