In this particular matter? No, I don't see anything to like in it. It's short-sighted, eliminates a service the state has been providing and which legitimate state-based businesses find helpful, saves nothing in the way of spending, and will no doubt be twisted by those opposed to Walker as evidence that the governor is anti-education. It is in all respects a bad decision.
An interesting article:
“......In truth, critics say accreditation by itself doesn’t mean much. Although the U.S. Department of Education has a formal system of recognizing accrediting agencies that meet government standards, that recognition is not required by law. So there are multiple suspect accrediting outfits giving phantom schools their seal of approval.
That is part of the gray zone of regulation and law in which diploma mills operate — and claim that they operate legally. But occasionally the authorities pounce.
Fourteen years ago, Sen. Susan M. Collins of Maine, working with federal investigators, successfully ordered a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Lexington University — the same name as the school where Terrence Carter received his discredited doctorate before applying to lead New London’s schools. That led to a crackdown on federal employees who had received degrees from diploma mills — with the fees sometimes reimbursed by U.S. taxpayers.
Records from just three schools obtained by the General Accounting Office identified 463 federal employees who had pursued degrees from diploma mills, including 28 senior-level employees working at such agencies as the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. But after that initial burst, the hunt for fake diplomas in government stopped.
It’s impossible to know how many subpar diplomas are being used today to qualify for jobs, or for higher pay. In Connecticut, as in most if not all states, public educators typically receive automatic pay increases if they hold advanced degrees. But there is no repository of the claimed academic credentials of the state’s teachers and administrators. That leaves it to individual districts to vet their employees, although a search of online resume sites reveals several Connecticut educators claiming degrees from schools considered to be diploma mills....”
http://projects.courant.com/degree-of-deception/#navtype=outfit