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Thursday, June 21, 2012

EXCLUSIVE: Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee To For-Profit College Industry: "You're Doing Incredible Work" | Republic Report

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Rhee To For-Profit College Industry: "You're Doing Incredible Work" | Republic Report:


She promised a bang, but delivered a whimper.
Republic Report was the first to report that Michelle Rhee, the hard-charging former chancellor of the District of Columbia public schools, would be addressing the Las Vegas annual convention of APSCU, the largest trade association for the controversial for-profit college industry. Not everyone is a fan of Rhee’s approach to education reform, but she is a prominent figure, and we expressed concern that, unless Rhee used the opportunity to sharply criticize her hosts, her appearance would look like an endorsement of an industry where many schools offer a toxic mix of deceptive