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Required Criteria Policy

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Programs will maintain compliance with the Required Criteria. When the NAEYC Academy gains information to suggest that a violation of a Required Criterion may have occurred in a program in candidacy or maintaining NAEYC Accreditation, the NAEYC Academy will conduct a review in accordance with the policies and procedures of the NAEYC Academy for Early Childhood Program Accreditation.


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