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Education Dept. staff recommends dropping embattled for-profit-college accreditor backed by DeVos Danielle Douglas-Gabriel © Jacquelyn Martin/AP The Education Department has recommended that the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools lose its federal recognition. A controversial accreditation agency backed by former education secretary Betsy DeVos may soon be stripped of its power to act as the gatekeeper for billions of dollars of federal financial aid. Career staffers at the Education Department are recommending that the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, or ACICS, lose the federal recognition needed to operate. In a report made public Friday, staffers concluded that the oversight body, which mostly accredits for-profit colleges, had failed to meet federal standards.

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