It’s reasonable to be concerned about OPMs, especially given continued regulatory scrutiny by the Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, and congressional inquiries into OPMs specifically. Those investigations tend to focus on potential abuses and the excessive redirection of federal student aid and tuition dollars to big corporations. Yet the pause given by these legitimate concerns risks turning into paralysis if we allow the discourse around such complex challenges to be marred by oversimplifications and faulty assumptions.
