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277:). As with the colleges, NEASC's original standards for prep schools were advisory, and accreditation was synonymous with NEASC membership. Although not every major New England prep school was a NEASC member in 1929, several joined shortly after NEASC membership became linked with accreditation (e.g.,
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resigned from NEASC in 2024, its principal stated that its yearly membership dues were approximately $ 4,000 and that in 2014, its decennial accreditation review cost $ 26,000. In addition, in
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accreditation because of the high cost and large amount of paperwork. He suggested that the situation may be different for private schools, as those schools do not have "traditional local and state oversight" and are exempted from certain federal disclosure requirements.
246:. NEASC and its successor officially trace back their accreditation efforts to 1929. However, in the early days, accreditation merely meant membership in NEASC; although NEASC approved a set of standards for member institutions, it treated those standards as advisory.
396:) requires applicants to graduate from an accredited secondary institution. In a letter to the editor, NEASC added that following a parent outcry, Burlington High School had already applied for re-accreditation, which was granted following a formal review in 2017.
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private and public secondary schools (high schools and technical/career institutions), primarily in New
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