Ex-Official Says Spellings Ignored 2-Year Colleges

Diane Auer Jones, who resigned in May as the Education Department's assistant secretary for postsecondary education, said at the National Association of Scholars meeting that she believed the department and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings's Commission on the Future of Higher Education missed the mark in their discussions of college access.

Speaking as part of a panel discussion at the NAS conference, Ms. Jones said Ms. Spellings seemed focused on promoting the access of students

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