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Lamar Alexander: “But they have 6,000 institutions to accredit. It does not make any sense to me that you would spend the same amount of…”

On the recordMarch 9, 2016
But they have 6,000 institutions to accredit. It does not make any sense to me that you would spend the same amount of time on a well functioning university that everybody regards and the same amount of time on an institution that is in a lot of trouble and everybody knows that too.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander criticizes equal accreditation time for troubled institutions versus well-functioning universities.

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