Embattled Keystone School is dealing with a possible lack of accreditation by the tip of this 12 months, in keeping with a discover posted final week by the Center States Fee on Greater Training.
The non-public school in Pennsylvania has confronted mounting enterprise challenges not too long ago.
The accreditor alleges that the school didn’t adjust to its customary in a number of areas, together with on governance and funds. MSCHE plans to strip Keystone’s accreditation by Dec. 31, although school officers indicated they intend to attraction the fee’s resolution.
“All of us knew that the method of rebuilding Keystone and altering our trajectory wouldn’t be simple. On the similar time, I really feel the adversarial motion taken by MSCHE considerably undervalues the progress the school has remodeled the previous a number of months to strengthen our monetary state of affairs, rectify our weaknesses and transfer ahead,” Keystone School president John Pullo wrote in a letter shared with Inside Greater Ed.
Pullo pledged to “pursue each potential alternative as we put together our attraction.”
The potential lack of accreditation comes roughly seven months after MSCHE warned that Keystone School was “at risk of imminent closure” because of its precarious funds. Since then Keystone has trimmed its head rely and introduced plans to merge with a fledgling suppose tank.
