[1] Institutions that are approved to operate in California by the Bureau still need to separately obtain educational accreditation from national or regional accrediting body recognized by the United States Department of Education for its students to qualify for federal financial aid, such as Pell Grants.

[3] The Bureau provides "oversight of California's private postsecondary educational institutions by conducting qualitative reviews of educational programs and operating standards, proactively combating unlicensed activity, impartially resolving student and consumer complaints, and conducting outreach".

[5] The BPPE website includes lists of Denied Schools, Compliance Inspection Results, Disciplinary Actions etc allowing potential students and their funders to check the status of individual institutions.

The Disciplinary Actions page provides all of the formal documentation that explains the background to the denial and the legal steps taken.

The laws authorizing these reforms expired without immediate replacement, and from the start of 2007 until the end of 2009, California did not have any agency regulating private schools.