CCSF accrediting team faces its own possible demise

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The commission that decided to revoke City College of San Francisco's accreditation next year did not adhere to several federal regulations when it investigated the school system, the U.S. Department of Education said in a letter to the body on Tuesday.

It is not immediately clear what impact the federal letter will have, if any, on the 85,000-student college, which is set to lose accreditation - and likely close - a year from now unless administrators make substantial progress in reforming the school.

"Right now we don't know what is happening other than that the letter was issued," Jennifer Aries, a spokeswoman for the college, said Tuesday. "We're staying focused on meeting the standards and the eligibility requirements. We have to keep our focus."

Krista Johns, the commission's vice president for policy research, stressed that the letter would have no impact on the ruling against City College.

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[CreekDog]

1. I hope so. The commission's trying to shut them down over accounting and organization not education

The accreditation panel is not contending that students aren't getting good education but instead aren't happy that the school is overing so many classes at so great a sacrifice. It is ridiculous to try to shutter a school on this basis, especially one that serves so many poor, minority and disadvantaged people so well.