The U.S. Department of Education gave a thumbs-up on Friday to a plan to keep City College of San Francisco open and accredited while it works on fixing the problems that nearly forced its closure.
Federal approval was required for the plan to move forward. Unveiled on June 11 by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, the proposal is to give City College two more years to comply with accrediting standards and to trigger a review of its progress in four months. The commission is expected to finalize the plan after a public comment period ends Wednesday.
The proposal closes a loophole in the two-year process of revoking accreditation. Once a college is on the brink of losing its seal of approval, commission policies do not let it consider progress made in the year before accreditation is yanked. Commission leaders had refused to change that. But when the full commission met in early June, its members approved a policy allowing any college in danger of losing accreditation to apply for "restoration status," giving it more time and taking progress into account.
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