What is the Council for Educational Accountability?
Right now it is little more than a one man show, though it does stir up interest when I talk with ordinary but informed Christians about the concept. I have been on one local cable talk show discussing the concept (my glorious debut on television. :-)
Seriously, as I envision it the Council for Educational Accountability would be a non-profit watchdog organization dedicated to providing a means for parents, students and alumni to obtain accurate information about the training given to students at Christian schools.
The mechanism for obtaining accurate information would be externally conducted audits by professional, independent CEA S-100 auditors. The auditors would operate under accreditation boards. The accreditation bodies and auditors would be required to be certified and maintain standards set by the Council. Schools would receive certification to CEA S-100 by the accreditation body they choose to work with, after successfully completing a audit by an audit firm mutually approved by both the school and accreditation body. (The exact details of this approval are TBD.)
The make-up and permanent method of filling vacancies on the Council are TBD. My primary concern is to construct an organizational system that is highly resistant to corruption through the use of checks and balances, limited terms of office awarded by electoral vote, and inviolable, foundational statutes. The whole point of the CEA project is to empower the common man and woman with reliable data to make wise choices and resist centralization of power and the inevitable corruption that accompanies it. This must be kept in mind throughout the development process.
Eric J. Blievernicht
18 September 1996
"We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ." (II Corinthians 10:5, NASB)
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