This action was taken at the NCA s annual meeting in Chicago, Ill, April 3. Along with hosting periodic on-site evaluations by a visiting team of educators, each NCA school is accredited on the basis of an annual report on conditions in the school and on such supplementary information as the Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement requests, said Roggow.
Continued accreditation means that the conditions for effective education exist in the school.
NCA membership assures the public at large that the school has met standards which high quality schools in the NCA region consider to be imperative for effective education and that it is working to improve performance for all students. The North Central Association is the largest of the country s regional accrediting agencies. It is a voluntary coalition of over 8,500 schools and over 1,000 colleges and universities in the 19 state region of the central United States. The association works with schools to improve the quality of education through a continuous process of accreditation and school improvement. NCA currently accredits 1,569 schools in Michigan.