Law-School Accreditor Faces Federal Scrutiny

The section of the American Bar Association that accredits law schools will have to provide detailed reports to the U.S. Department of Education on how it applies standards intended to promote diversity.

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said last month that she would go along with a recommendation to grant an 18-month extension in accreditation authority to the bar association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. But she expressed displeasure

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