Powers Associate Dan Brozovic Promoted to Principal
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville is pleased to announce that Dan Brozovic has been promoted to Principal, effective January 1, 2020.
Powers 2019 Year in Review
Over the years, Powers has grown to be a leading legal voice in Washington—from our founding as a healthcare law firm in 1983 to our expansion to education law, tribal law, government relations, and nonprofit law. In 2019, we continued to grow our team and expand our capabilities to offer the best to our clients. As we kick off 2020, we reflect on some of the highlights of 2019 and the many accomplishments that made this past year successful.
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Department of Education’s Accreditation Rule Seeks to Eliminate Distinction Between Regional and National Accrediting Agencies
By Katherine Demedis
Institutional accrediting agencies in the United States have long been divided into national and regional agencies, with the seven regional accrediting agencies operating in distinct geographic regions in the country. However, the Department of Education’s new accreditation rule implements several changes intended to eliminate the distinction between regional and national accrediting agencies.
Kathleen Hatfield Joins Powers Government Relations Practice
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville, PC, a nationally-recognized law firm with practices in the areas of healthcare, education, legislative and regulatory affairs, Indian tribal governments and nonprofit organizations, is pleased to announce that Kathleen Hatfield has joined the firm as Counsel in the government relations practice.
Powers Counsel Rebecca Burke to Present at CTeL Telehealth Fall Summit
Powers Counsel Rebecca Burke will present at the CTeL Fall Summit on Thursday, December 5.
Powers Senior Counsel Jim Pyles Authors Chapter in Textbook on Applied Psychoanalysis
Powers Senior Counsel Jim Pyles co-authored a chapter in the recently published Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis. The chapter, which Mr. Pyles wrote with his brother, Robert L. Pyles, M.D., discusses an ethical approach to health reform and asserts that health reform legislation must give priority to the individual’s interest in personal autonomy and privacy.
Institutions Subject to Adverse Actions Have Opportunity to Change Accreditors Under the Department’s New Rule
By Katherine Demedis
The loss of institutional accreditation is often a death knell for Title IV eligible institutions because most institutions enroll a substantial number of students who depend on Title IV funds to finance their educations. With its recent revisions to 34 C.F.R. § 600.11 published on November 1, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education may have provided a life line. The Department’s new rules allow institutions that are or have been subject to an adverse action by their current accrediting agency to change accreditors or maintain accreditation by more than one institutional accreditor.
Powers Senior Director of Government Affairs Jeremy Scott Presents at ARN Annual REACH Conference
Powers Senior Director of Government Affairs Jeremy Scott presented at the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) Annual REACH Conference on November 7th.
Early Implementation of State Authorization Rule Changes
By Dan Brozovic
On Friday, November 1, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education officially released its long-awaited final rule on accreditation and state authorization issues, the culmination of a multi-year negotiated rulemaking process. Most of the wide-ranging regulatory changes in this package—including the accreditation provisions summarized in our prior post—will take effect on July 1, 2020.