Nicole Grimes

With more than 2,600 accredited schools across the United States and in 112 other countries, MSA-CESS reviews hundreds of accreditation reports each year. The final decision makers in the process…

The September 2020 edition of The Standard Newsletter is available online here!

MSA-CESS will resume peer review accreditation visits in September with a revised approach that is mindful of the health and safety of our school communities and of our staff and…

On behalf of the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools, I want to thank you for all that you have done over the past six months to…

Earlier this summer, MSA surveyed the school leaders of all Spring 2020 postponed visits and all Fall 2020 planned visits to ascertain how MSA could best support schools during this…

The June 2020 edition of The Standard Newsletter is available online here.

Carol (Ribeiro) DeFuria is a member of the Middle States Association Commission on Elementary Schools and president and CEO of VHS Learning (VHS, Inc.), a nonprofit organization providing supplemental online…

Summer is here, and at Middle States that means it’s time to squeeze in some extra reading. Here are some of the titles our staff have on their summer book…

This article was submitted by Department of Student Services at Academia Maria Reina, which holds a Middle States Program of Distinction in School Counseling.  As soon as the Governor of…

The past several months have presented challenges that few of us could have ever imagined.   It seemed as if the world flipped upside down in an instant, and we…