"An affordable, flexible, high-quality education. This is what prospective students of Fountain of Youth Academy of Cosmetology are promised," Pittsburgh's Public Source reports.

... "Sarah Austin, a policy analyst with the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said it would be 'impossible' to know what the transcript withholding policies were for 'every school in the country' prior to July 2024. She also said that some states had rules addressing withholding in the absence of federal guidelines."

... "'Having a clean audit is not necessarily all a school would need to do to get off' monitoring, according to Austin at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. She said that a two-year wait to be removed from monitoring would be unusual, though she did not know about Fountain of Youth’s specific situation."

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Publication Date: 5/14/2026