POINTS AND FIGURES: The Continued Assault On For-Profit Education. “After speaking with a person from a for profit college, I found that their thinking was very similar to a start up. They put out a product, and then keep iterating it based on feedback from students and employers. FPC’s are forced to be on the cutting edge of changes in the market because both sides of their supply and demand equation expect it. FPC’s aren’t unionized with legacy teachers unions. They can be run far more efficiently than community colleges.”

Call me cynical, but I think the absence of unions explains the Obama Administration’s hostility — together with the fact that traditional “non-profit” universities, with which for-profit institutions increasingly compete, are a core source of money, messaging, and volunteers for the Democratic Party.