June 8, 2007
Spellings Is Warned on Accreditation
A former U.S. secretary of education has sent a message to the current secretary: back off.
In a floor speech last month, Sen. Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, warned Margaret Spellings that he would seek to block her department from using its regulatory authority to transform the accreditation process. The department is considering regulations that would introduce new measures of "student-learning outcomes" into accreditation and prohibit colleges from denying the transfer of
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