Assertions that the U.S. Department of Education missed a deadline to delay state authorization rules are incorrect, a department spokeswoman said Thursday.
In a statement, the department said it “did not miss the July 1 deadline for this delay.”
A notice confirming the two-year delay in putting the new rule in place “was on public inspection Friday (6/29),” the department said. Though the document was “published on paper July 3, the effective date was still Friday (6/29).”
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/07/06/ed-department-says-it-didn’t-botch-state-authorization-delay