Rod Paige on diploma mills

Paige proposes to meet with states on diploma mills

For some reason I couldn't see this in IE, but it was OK in Mozilla.

Here's a snippet:

• Education Department secretary Roderick Paige wants to convene a meeting for state and federal officials to discuss the best ways of dealing with government employees who obtain bogus credentials from diploma mills.
  
  Paige told Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) that his agency doesn’t have the authority to determine whether a school is a diploma mill. “That decision is best made by appropriate regulators in the state in which the school is located,” he wrote in an Oct. 9 letter to the senator.
  
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  Paige said assistant secretary Sally Stroup, head of the Office of Postsecondary Education, will convene a meeting of officials from states with laws restricting diploma mills and representatives from Collins’ staff and from the Office of Personnel Management to discuss whether and what kind of federal action is needed. They also will discuss how to help government personnel managers identify fraudulent educational credentials.
  
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  “Good for them—it’s actually some forward motion,” said Alan Contreras, administrator of the Oregon office, when he learned of Paige’s letter.

 

To stop diploma mills from operating, the federal goverment needs to step in.

 

Presumably he means those employees who use their bogus credentials to scam their employers (ultimately, the taxpayers.)

If so, then my personal vote is for "poke them repeatedly with sharp sticks, tar and feather them, and sit them in stocks with signs around their neck proclaiming their crime."

And no, I'm not kidding.