6
Currents
October 2016
> continued from page 5
with the gainful employment
rule. [Rule would require schools
to provide the percentage of
graduates obtain gainful employment in the field of study]
Those who signed were
Republican U.S. Sen. Marco
Rubio, Democratic U.S. Reps.
Alcee Hastings, Ted Deutch, Lois
Frankel, Alan Grayson, Patrick
Murphy, and then-Democratic
Rep. Joe Garcia, who lost his
November reelection bid. No
other state had so many lawmakers sign the letter.
Bloomberg recently reported
that Rubio also wrote a separate
letter last summer on behalf of
scandal-plagued Corinthian Colleges, a large for-profit chain that
has ceased operations amid fraud
continued on page 7 >