The Education Department announced last week that it is stripping the powers of one of the nation’s largest accreditors of for-profit schools. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, or ACICS, has been under scrutiny for continuing to accredit colleges whose students had strikingly poor outcomes. As ProPublica has reported, schools accredited by the...
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