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Education Department Downshifts on Innovation Rule Changes

The Department of Education’s ambitious proposals to revamp regulations around accreditation, pitched as an effort to facilitate educational innovation, drew widespread blowback earlier this year. Yesterday, department officials offered the clearest signals yet that the criticisms have prompted a change in strategy. Timed to coincide with Tuesday’s start of the second of three rounds of […]

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State Authorization for Distance Ed Federal Regulation to be Implemented 07/01/2018

The U.S. Department of Education is scheduled to implement state authorization for distance education regulations on July 1, 2018. There is still some uncertainty about whether the Department will implement the regulation and, if they do, what institutions need to do to comply. WCET and its State Authorization Network (SAN), the National Commission for State […]

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Walden University Grads Default on Their Federal Loans at Very Low Rates. But That’s not Why They’re Under Investigation.

They’re a for-profit based in Minnesota, but weren’t on the list of SARA-authorized institutions in that state. It looked like the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (MOHE) had stripped them of their license and they had gained authorization in another state. Under SARA, this would allow them to educate distance learners in every state in […]

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