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DeSantis Sues Biden Administration Over College Accreditation System

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, announced Thursday that the state has filed a lawsuit that seeks to block federal enforcement of higher education accrediting requirements. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, names U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and other federal education officials as defendants. It lists several complaints about a Georgia-based accreditor called the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, alleging that the association has sought to “curb the State’s governance of public institutions, hold hostage billions of dollars in federal funds, and evade input from the public.”
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