For-profit school accreditation: Don't ask, don't tell

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Title: For-profit school accreditation: Don't ask, don't tell
Date: July 22, 2011
Author: BYRON HARRIS / WFAA

I'm not even sure what the hell I am reading. Watch the video instead. It is 6 1/2 minutes long.

[CoARC] generally takes the school's word on it's success rate.

ACCSC is the other trade school cop that accredits ATI. ACCSC's executive director Michael McCommis declined to be interviewed by News 8. He also did not respond to written questions. ACCSC collected more than $6 million last year from the schools it regulates, like ATI.

Still, ACCSC is short on manpower. So, it calls on the schools it regulates to provide volunteers in the accreditation process. Two ATI employees, Kathy Fox Frisbee and Michael Ackerman, have helped ACCSC inspect other schools. In turn, those other schools have helped inspect ATI. Until recently, Frisbee's paid job at ATI was to make sure the company's schools got accredited, and Ackerman, whose credentials students say were in question, was head of campus 50

Source:http://www.wfaa.com/home/related/For-profit-school-accreditation-Dont-ask-dont-tell-126018073.html