Virginia Tech is appealing a $55,000 fine from the Department of Education for violating federal law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 massacre on the Blacksburg campus.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said the school isn’t appealing because of the monetary penalty but to “compel the DOE to treat Virginia Tech fairly and to apply a very poorly defined and subjectively applied federal law consistently and correctly.” His office sent the department a letter announcing the appeal Wednesday.

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