Accreditation proposal not yet advancing

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama said that his administration would “require all schools of education to be accredited.”

We found no public references to progress on this initiative using searches of Whitehouse.gov, Google and Nexis. In addition, at least one expert in the field was unaware of any moves to advance this promise.

The Education Department is busy encouraging educational reforms under the “Race to the Top” program, which was passed as part of the economic stimulus bill approved last February. But so far there’s nothing specific about requiring accreditation for all schools of education. So we rate this promise Stalled.