Attorney General Frosh to Education Secretary DeVos: Reject Accrediting Agency that Approved Failing For-Profit Schools

BALTIMORE, MD – Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh today joined a coalition of states in opposing an application by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) to regain its status as a nationally-recognized accreditor, noting the accreditor’s “extreme and far-reaching oversight failures” and the serious harm it caused students and taxpayers across the country by enabling fraud and abuse by predatory for-profit schools.

Read more in the full press release:http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2018/022018.pdf