After waiting for nearly two years, the Obama administration this week decided to uphold its decision that California's community college accreditor was not meeting federal accreditation standards, and it gave the accreditor a year to resolve the issues.
Acting Education Secretary John King on Monday rejected the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges' appeal of two of the department's 2014 findings against the accreditor. King affirmed the department's original determination that the ACCJC was not "widely accepted" by educators and that it also did not assign enough academics to the teams that evaluated colleges.
"In this case, the department expressed a reasonable basis for finding ACCJC noncompliant with the regulations," he wrote.
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