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The Trump administration is opening a new front in its effort to reshape higher education.<\/p>\n

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The Education Department is moving to strip the American Bar Association of its authority to accredit law schools nationwide, escalating a long-running feud between the administration and the ABA, which the White House has accused of pushing a progressive agenda, including diversity, equity and inclusion policies at law schools, reported the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

The ABA accredits nearly 200 law schools and serves as the profession’s gatekeeper, because accreditation is required for schools to access federal student-loan funding, and in most states, graduates of non-accredited law schools cannot sit for the bar exam. Losing that authority would be a significant blow to the organization’s influence over legal education.<\/p>\n

The Education Department’s push is backed by a nearly 500-page report, more than a year in development, arguing the ABA’s accrediting arm lacks sufficient independence from the legal profession it oversees.<\/p>\n

“We have said many times that accreditation, in general, operates like a cartel,” said David Barker, assistant secretary of education. “When there’s no competition, accreditors feel free to inject their own political preferences, their own ideologies into the work that they do.”<\/p>\n

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Melissa Hart, chair of the ABA’s Accreditation Council, pushed back, saying the council is confident it meets federal requirements and that “the outcomes produced by council-accredited law schools are unmatched.”<\/p>\n

The recommendation must first go to a panel that reviews accreditors, which will then make its own recommendation to Undersecretary of Education Nicholas Kent. If the ABA ultimately loses its authority, university-affiliated law schools would likely shift to their parent institution’s accreditor, while standalone law schools would need to find a new one entirely.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump’s administration has already discouraged federal lawyers from attending ABA events, frozen university research funding and investigated medical schools over affirmative action policies.<\/p>\n

On the campaign trail, Trump once called accreditation his “secret weapon” for remaking American higher education, and an executive order last year already made it easier for schools to switch accreditors.<\/p>\n

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