Congress exempted beauty schools from rules about how much graduates should earn - Meredith Kolodner, Hechinger Report

Under the “big beautiful bill” passed in July, two- and four-year colleges must ensure that, after four years, graduates on average make at least as much as someone in their state who has only a high school diploma. The colleges must inform students if they fail that test, and if it happens for two out of three years, the college will be ineligible to receive federal loan funds. Some for-profit certificate schools lobbied hard for an exemption. The American Association of Career Schools, which represents proprietary cosmetology schools, spent $120,000 lobbying the Education Department and Congress, including on the “big beautiful bill,” in the first six months of this year. 

https://hechingerreport.org/congress-wants-colleges-to-make-sure-graduates-can-earn-a-living-but-some-schools-got-a-carveout/