Feds propose shutdown of largest for-profit college watchdog

[WhiteTara]

Source: Omaha.com



BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education is taking the first step to close the nation's biggest accreditor of for-profit colleges.

Department staff recommended Wednesday that the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools be terminated.

The council serves as a watchdog for 900 campuses and decides if they can receive federal funding.

But several state attorneys general have accused it of overlooking deception by some schools. The council has accredited some institutions accused of fraud, including the now-defunct Corinthian College chain.

Education officials found problems with the group's standards during a review.


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[appalachiablue]

1. Raw neoliberal privatization nation and more rapid deregulation, nothing is spared.

Is Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan gone yet I hope?

[Iggo]

2. So instead of running it right, they're going to get rid of it?

Wha...?

[Igel]

4. Some people like running things.

They know they're good at it and never make mistakes. They're just better and smarter.

They don't like competition, because it implies that there are good and better and smarter people that disagree with them.

When in government, they like government monopolies. Education, control over society, is a government monopoly, or should be. Especially in a well-regulated democracy.

This is a quick and easy way to implement a single vision: For-profit colleges/schools (post-secondary) are bad. Instead of shutting them down for what they did wrong, find where the governing or accrediting organization has failed to live up to standards and close it down. Suddenly no for-profit school can remain open because they cannot be accredited. Can that organization be saved? Sure. Do those who dislike for-profit schools want to allow them to be saved? Assuredly not. They don't want to, and their boss has said he doesn't want them around. He needs to be his brothers' warden, heading a sort of a helicopter govenment.

[WhiteTara]

3. Here's the take away of this article.

But several state attorneys general have accused it of overlooking deception by some schools. The council has accredited some institutions accused of fraud, including the now-defunct Corinthian College chain.

Education officials found problems with the group's standards during a review.

The recommendation goes to an advisory committee before top department officials make a final decision.

If the council closes, its schools would have 18 months to find new accreditors or lose federal funding. The council did not immediately comment.

[angrychair]

5. Yep

Closing it will definitely fix the problems.