September 19, 2005

Education chief targets colleges

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plans to announce a national strategy for post-secondary education and will tackle issues such as access and affordability. Spellings said she was "not advocating a bigger role for the federal government in higher education" but the country "needs a coordinated approach to meet rising enrollment numbers and new economic demands." The commission will also focus on the lack of solid information about what colleges are and are not doing well.

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