Education Department Acknowledges That Its Accreditation Panel Won't Meet Again

After some last-minute uncertainty, it's now final: The Bush administration-appointed National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity will no longer impose its concepts of student achievement on the nation's accrediting agencies.

The review panel, known as Naciqi, was overhauled by Congress in July, when lawmakers approved a long-delayed measure renewing the Higher Education Act. Congress decreed that a new version of the panel will be created early next

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