If there is one thing Americans agree upon today is that public higher education in the U.S. is a mess. A is the most popular grade today and the C is considered an “endangered species.”
The good news is that the Trump administration is working to make things better.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been tireless in implementing President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda by promoting school choice and making fairer federal rules for responses to charges of discrimination and school racial disciplinary procedures.
Last week she took a momentous step to open monopolist college accreditation procedures to more for-profit schools. A very few university accreditors decide which colleges can be created and what they have to do to survive. These are staffed by progressive establishment pro-government administrators who assure college education is a public and non-profit sector product, enforced by denying access to federal student aid programs.