Excerpted from: http://www.independent.com/news/2015/sep/25/sbcc-votes-against-renewing-contract-kaplan-intern/
Friday, September 25, 2015
In response to growing community concern about large numbers of international students attending English-language training schools, the Santa Barbara Community College Board of Trustees voted not to extend its contract with Kaplan International English to lease campus space. Kaplan is one of a handful of English-language schools that have drawn the ire of community activists concerned that the presence of so many international students was pushing rents up and local families out.