From the News & Observer:

A powerful accreditation agency has threatened to immediately remove its certification from Wake County?s high schools unless the school system complies for its requests for information.

In a letter to the school system, officials from Advancing Excellence in Education Worldwide, or AdvancED, write that the agency is concerned about the ?defiant? nature of Wake?s reaction to its special review.

I read school board attorney Ann Majestic’s letter to AdvancED, which questioned the organization’s authority to obtain information and violation of their own established procedures for review. It caught AdvancEd with its pants down. Embarrassed, AdvancEd officials decided to behave like jerks and bullies.