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December 31, 2010Showdown in the OffingThree years ago, Congress stopped then-Education Secretary Margaret Spellings dead in her tracks. Cheered on by college leaders, Senator Lamar Alexander and other lawmakers -- irked by the Education Department's aggressive attempts to regulate higher education accreditation and by what they perceived to be the executive branch's encroachment on their turf -- took several legislative steps that effectively blocked the department from issuing new rules on student learning outcomes.Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 31, 2010 1:42 AM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: ![]() Comments
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