Department Of Education Staff Moves To Dump For-Profit College Accreditor

By - David Halperin - Attorney, advocate, writer at RepublicReport.org - HuffingtonPost.com

The staff of the U.S. Department of Education has just recommended that a controversial college accrediting body face what a Department official labeled “termination” — an end to recognition by the Department as an agency that accredits schools. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), founded in 1912, has been under fire for a year as part of the fallout of the collapse of giant for-profit Corinthian Colleges, which was exposed for egregious deceptions of students and taxpayers.