A U.S. District Court judge has struck down a portion of the Education Department’s controversial “state authorization” rule but upheld a pair of rules barring deception in college recruiting and commissions for college recruiters.
In an opinion issued Tuesday, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia tossed out a requirement that colleges offering online programs to students in other states had to seek approval from each of those states. Colleges had not been given adequate time to review the rule and comment on it, Judge Collyer wrote.
Her decision was cheered by the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, which sued the department in January over the state-authorization requirement, and over the department’s “misrepresentation” and “incentive compensation” rules. In a statement issued Tuesday evening, the group called the ruling “a major victory for innovation in higher education and an important answer to the department’s obvious overreach in this area.”
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