Showing posts with label accreditation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accreditation. Show all posts

Friday, November 3, 2023

Trolling Moms for Liberty during a BOOK BANNING

This is mostly satirical, but the last few minutes shows right winger Chris Rufo — originator of the whole panic over critical race theory and book bans, and "good Catholic" — explain that it's all about turning the public against public schools so that money can go to private corporations to run schools instead.

And note that those private schools often don't need to be accredited or meet any standards. 

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Dream Center: DeVos aide Diane Auer Jones helped for-profit Art Institutes, Argosy University, texts and emails show - The Washington Post

For the past year, the Education Department has denied that a top official went out of her way to help Dream Center Education Holdings, owner of the Art Institutes, South University and Argosy University, as the company spiraled into insolvency. But a batch of text messages, emails and letters shed new light on Dream Center’s relationship with Diane Auer Jones, the head of higher education policy at the department, and her efforts to help the company regain accreditation at two of its schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/07/28/dream-center-art-institutes-argosy-devos/

Friday, June 17, 2016

Sen. Warren Slams For-profit College Accreditor for ‘Appalling Record of Failure’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released a report today slamming an accreditor of for-profit colleges for its “appalling record of failure.”

“Students and taxpayers have paid the price” for the failures of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, she wrote in an accompanying letter to the U.S. Secretary of Education. Warren urged the Department of Education to take “strong, aggressive action to hold ACICS accountable.”

Citing ProPublica’s reporting, Warren blasted ACICS for accrediting schools that “consistently produce astronomical debt levels and terrible outcomes for students.”

Warren’s report comes nearly a year after she grilled members of ACICS during a senate hearing on their failure to sanction Corinthian Colleges, which kept its accreditation until the day the school collapsed in bankruptcy....
https://www.propublica.org/article/sen-warren-slams-for-profit-college-accreditor-appalling-record-of-failure









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