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      "role": "Institutional accreditor for the Mid-Atlantic region",
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      "jurisdiction": "US (accreditor)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.wscuc.org",
      "name": "WASC Senior College and University Commission",
      "role": "Institutional accreditor for California and the West",
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      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/education/",
      "name": "Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development",
      "role": "International education indicators (PISA, Education at a Glance)",
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      "url": "https://www.ed.gov/about",
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      "url": "https://nces.ed.gov/about/",
      "name": "NCES — About Us"
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  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
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  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
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    "url": "Official website",
    "name": "Official organization name",
    "role": "Primary mandate or function",
    "acronym": "Common acronym or short name",
    "jurisdiction": "Level of authority or geography"
  },
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    "Point data pipelines at the correct federal system (IPEDS, Scorecard) for institution data.",
    "Verify accreditation status by mapping schools to recognized accreditors."
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}