Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Noticeably Absent As Decisions On Reopening Schools Loom
While public schools deal with reopenings amid the coronavirus pandemic, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is sitting at home in Michigan working remotely...
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to Offer Homeschooling Microgrants from COVID-19 Relief Funds
Last week, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos banned DACA students from receiving coronavirus aid. Her latest plan is garnering more controversy....
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Blocks DACA Students From Receiving Coronavirus Grant Aid
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has blocked students in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program from receiving emergency grant aid....
Does School Discipline Reform Need Reforming?
“I don’t think you can go too fast if you are trying to remedy an injustice. If you are violating students’ rights, there are some...
Charter Schools Thrive Under Strict Oversight
In an article on the website The Hill, the efficacy of charter schools is lauded. But instead of titling the article The Undeniable Efficacy of...
Don’t Waste Our Time, Postpone the National HBCU Week Conference, Says Pretty Much Everyone to Trump
Rep. Alma Adams, representing the Twelfth District of North Carolina, is calling on Trump and DeVos to postpone the 2017 National HBCU Week Conference....
Ed Department’s Office for Civil Rights to Become ‘Neutral, Impartial’
Under the Obama administration, for example, the Office for Civil Rights determined that black students are more likely to be suspended or expelled from school...
Betsy DeVos Says She Wants to Protect Student Borrowers, Then Freezes Rules That Protect Them
Although DeVos has said it is her intent to protect students, it seems that she also wants to make rules that are more palatable to...
DeVos Supports For-Profit Sector Over Students, Taxpayers
DeVos suggests that what’s important is the ability to pursue higher education including career training, period. There’s no acknowledgment that the for-profit sector uses deception,...
Will Betsy DeVos #ProtectOurStudents?
Betsy DeVos answered questions from the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee this morning after defending the Trump administration’s budget which includes cuts that one senator called “draconian.”...