Court Opens Door for For-Profit Accreditor's Future

April 21, 2018
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The Obama administration's Education Department failed to consider key evidence when it reviewed and ultimately terminated its recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools in 2016, a federal judge ruled late Friday.

The judge ordered the Education Department -- now under very different leadership -- to reconsider the accrediting agency's case. The decision gives ACICS, which has fought vigorously to stay alive, an opening for a next act.

Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/03/26/federal-court-orders-education-dept-reconsider-acicss-fate