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Monday, July 25, 2011

Should states have more oversight of online schools?

By Christopher Magan | Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:55 AM

Today Oxford Press editor Meagan Engle and I reported how U.S. Department of Education efforts to increase state oversight of online education have been struck down by a federal court.

The proposed rule was part of a set of regulations that included new oversight of the quickly growing for-profit education industry.

The “state authorization” rule would have required schools to receive authorization in every state it taught students online. It was opposed by nearly every education sector and the for-profit industry sued to block the rule and other regulations regarding recruiting practices. A federal judge agreed the “state authorization” rule went too far, but upheld other regulations.

What do you think? Should online education be monitored more closely?

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