There's a key para in the middle. The legislature mooted a bill to reduce the excessive school-hours requirement, but since more paid lobbyists from the schools

There's a key para in the middle. The legislature mooted a bill to reduce the excessive school-hours requirement, but since more paid lobbyists from the schools (paid for by the scam schools that the bill was trying to stop) showed up than victims (who couldn't afford to travel to the senate to beg for help), they dropped the bill. Also the private schools lobbied successfully to make school was required by law but make publicly funded schools illegal. Their argument was simply that publicly funded school would hurt their profits. Strangely the same economic argument does not apply to the citizens of the state, who are not presumed entitled to profit. Legislatures make laws to protect moneyed interests, not the public. I hope that salons unite to boycott licensing requirements and hire staff who skip these scam schools.