By Gabriel Allen

George Pruitt has long believed a good education for all is crucial for the United States to function well as a nation.

From his days as a student at Illinois State University, where he protested the lack of minority students and faculty, to his current role as president of Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, Pruitt has pushed to see that education is available to everyone.

“Why everyone? Because in our country, people are citizens, and the citizens own the country rather than being subjects of the government or monarchy,” Pruitt said. “Our government was created to serve the citizens, not vice versa.”

Pruitt, who has been at the helm of Thomas Edison State College for 31 years, said he draws much of his inspiration about education from Thomas Jefferson, who has been heralded as the father of public education.

“Thomas Jefferson established our country as one which believed in and established a universal educational system in order to educate all of our citizens, not just the elite,” Pruitt said. “Thomas Jefferson understood that it is a great responsibility to be a citizen, and if this experiment is going to work, the public must be educated and sophisticated enough to carry out the responsibilities of a citizen.”

At Thomas Edison, which caters exclusively to adult students, he carries…………… continues on The Times of Trenton – NJ.com

A regional commission that is revoking City College of San Francisco’s accreditation effective next year asked a judge Monday not to consider a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the commission’s ruling.

The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges issued an order in July revoking the school’s accreditation effective July 31, 2014, prompting lawsuits by the City Attorney’s Office and two teachers unions that say the commission did not give City College proper due process before making its decision.

An attorney for the ACCJC told San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow on Monday that it should not be up to the court to decide whether the commission properly sanctioned City College.

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