Little known, however, is Rhee's interaction with the controversial for-profit college industry. In June 2012, Michelle Rhee addressed the Las Vegas annual convention of APSCU (now called CECU), the largest for-profit college trade association. She cited an investigation by the Government Accountability Office that documented repeated cases of deceptive recruiting by for-profit colleges. Four years after Rhee's APSCU appearance, APSCU, and indeed much of the for-profit college industry, are in freefall. As Secretary, faced with relentless lobbying by for-profit colleges and their paid allies on Capitol Hill, which course would Rhee take?

Source: Huffington Post November 17, 2016 18:10 UTC