Attorney General claims that colleges are held captive by the national approval process.
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit in Florida challenging the federal government’s approval standards for higher education institutions.
The federal government “requires people postsecondary institutions to submit to personal accreditors to count for national funding,” according to the complaint filed by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody next year.
But, U. S. District Judge Jacqueline Becerra granted the Biden administration’s ask to dismiss the case this week, the Orlando Sentinel information.
Becerra wrote that” Florida’s ] sweeping criticism of the legislative scheme by which the federal government provides students with financial aid for their postsecondary education undermines distinct functions of the process, disregards undisputed facts, and then uses legal standards that are not controlling to compel the court to reject the motion.”
The judge said Moody’s company may report a revised complaint, if it chooses, according to the review:
” The position, of course, is not without recourse”, Becerra wrote. It may use federal resources to challenge the laws in Congress, raise money for students attending its schools, or engage in the marketplace, just to give some examples. However, this judge only has the authority to interpret the law as it is, as it is pleadable, and not as the state would like it to be. By those lamps, what the position presented, at least in this problem, cannot have”. …
Following altercations between state authorities and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, a steadfast accrediting body for colleges and universities in Florida, Moody’s department filed the lawsuit last month.
The petition, for instance, cited a dispute involving the accrediting agency’s leader, Belle Wheelan, in 2021 taking issue with the possibility of then-state Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran becoming president of Florida State University. Corcoran is then president of New College of Florida, but he did not receive the FSU career.
In 2022, the Republican-controlled Government and Gov. A bill that requires public universities and colleges to shift accreditors on a regular basis was approved by Ron DeSantis.
Gloomy accused “private educational accreditors” of “holding our colleges and universities prisoner” in a speech when she filed the lawsuit.
We are fighting to take control of our common postsecondary training program from appointed private companies who have no accountability or oversight, according to Moody at the time.
Various conservatives have also criticized the college and university approval process.
In a 2023 statement, the Heritage Foundation urged Congress to revolution the Higher Education Act and stop accreditors ‘ grip on institutions, The College Fix reported.
The liberal thinktank argued accreditation “is usually a costly process for institutions, while offering small quality control, and it extremely mandates’ woke’ university policies”.
Further: Important conservative think tank calling on Congress to reform school certifications
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