Do high schools need a certified media spec. for accreditation? (certification, GED)

[Rich Cabeza]

Where I live it's NEASC but I would assume most areas of the country have similar rules. Please don't guess as an answer. Thanks.

[photobuff42]

Originally Posted by Rich Cabeza

Where I live it's NEASC but I would assume most areas of the country have similar rules. Please don't guess as an answer. Thanks.

Why don't you look on your state's department of education website on the certification pages. No guessing there.

[Rich Cabeza]

Originally Posted by photobuff42

Why don't you look on your state's department of education website on the certification pages. No guessing there.

I'll do that but I doubt if it would have accreditation info. Mostly certification info.

[North Beach Person]

https://www.neasc.org/


Unless it's changed, the Middle States Association could use the lack of a Media Specialist as a reason to deny accreditation unless there were mitigating circumstances. I would imagine the NEASC has the same standards.


My (former) school system tried it (not having Media Specialists) a number of years ago and got slapped back fairly quickly with the next reaccreditation visit.

[Rich Cabeza]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

https://www.neasc.org/


Unless it's changed, the Middle States Association could use the lack of a Media Specialist as a reason to deny accreditation unless there were mitigating circumstances. I would imagine the NEASC has the same standards.


My (former) school system tried it (not having Media Specialists) a number of years ago and got slapped back fairly quickly with the next reaccreditation visit.

I emailed the head guy at NEASC. If anyone knows he should. Here in CT we're under a huge budget crunch and our STATE run vo-tech school system is getting wacked about $8.75 mil.