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 rule-making conversations, department officials circulated new documents outlining changes they’ve made to their prior proposals for clarifying controversial and outdated regulations. Inside Higher Ed today summarized the most significant differences between the two sets of proposals.
