California Bill Would Force Colleges to Honor Online Classes

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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/education/california-bill-would-force-colleges-to-honor-online-classes.html?hpw#comments%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/education/california-bill-would-force-colleges-to-honor-online-classes.html?hpw#comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Any CA parents here? This is, imho, outrageous.</p>

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<p>Repost?</p>

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<p>It would only be for faculty approved on-line courses when the regular course was full (mainly a problem at the community college level, due to open admissions there).</p>

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<p>The Times article says the panel to approve the courses (which would include offerings by for-profit schools) would be 3 professors from each institute. I suspect it would be possible to find 3 in each school who would sign off on whatever they were told do.</p>