[T]he Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges – which found in 2012 that City College’s fiscal and governance systems were out of compliance with accrediting standards – has repeatedly refused requests to extend the deadline, saying the Education Department bars extensions. Now, however, the Education Department has made it clear that the commission is free to adopt a policy allowing it to extend the deadline for City College for as long as it takes the college to comply. College officials say they need 12 to 18 months. The commission will meet June 4-6, but its members have not said if they will consider extending the deadline. (The college has a temporary reprieve, pending the outcome of a trial set for October. If the commission prevails in the case against it, the college would lose public funding and have to close.)

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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