{"id":58,"date":"2019-07-26T10:39:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/?p=58"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:06:20","slug":"california-based-institutions-exempt-in-other-states-could-also-be-impacted-by-u-s-department-of-educations-rules-for-online-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/2019\/07\/26\/california-based-institutions-exempt-in-other-states-could-also-be-impacted-by-u-s-department-of-educations-rules-for-online-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"California-Based Institutions Exempt in Other States Could Also Be Impacted by U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s Rules for Online Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00a0<a title=\"Critical Compliance Areas for Online Schools as 2016 State Authorization Rule Takes Effect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/critical_compliance_areas_online_schools_2016_state_authorization_rule_0719.html\">reported<\/a>\u00a0earlier this week on the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Compliance with the 2016 State Authorization Regulations Questions and Answers\" href=\"https:\/\/ifap.ed.gov\/eannouncements\/072219Compliance2016StateAuthRegQandA.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 22, 2019, announcement<\/a>, which clarified that California students attending online programs offered by out-of-state nonprofit and public institutions are not currently eligible for Title IV Federal Student Aid because of lack of a student complaint process. This issue is not limited to California students and could similarly impact students in many states across the country attending online programs offered by all California colleges and universities, including nonprofit, public and for-profit schools. California-based colleges and universities offering online programs in other states must seek state-by-state authorization or exemption because California does not participate in\u00a0<a title=\"National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nc-sara.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SARA<\/a>\u00a0(State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement). Many of these states do not provide a complaint process for exempt institutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/california_based_institutions_exempt_other_states_impacted_dept_education_rule_0719.html\">View the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00a0reported\u00a0earlier this week on the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s\u00a0July 22, 2019, announcement, which clarified that California students attending online programs offered by out-of-state nonprofit and public institutions are not currently eligible for Title IV Federal Student Aid because of lack of a student complaint process. This issue is not limited to California students and could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/2019\/07\/26\/california-based-institutions-exempt-in-other-states-could-also-be-impacted-by-u-s-department-of-educations-rules-for-online-programs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California-Based Institutions Exempt in Other States Could Also Be Impacted by U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s Rules for Online Programs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,5,8,16,13,11,10],"ppma_author":[179],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-state-authorization-rule","tag-anthony-j-guida-jr","tag-california","tag-complaint-process","tag-department-of-education","tag-online-programs","tag-online-schools"],"authors":[{"term_id":179,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}