Tag: Betsy DeVos
Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 14
15 groups account for nearly all dark money, Trump claim Democrats rigged hurricane death toll, Bezos commits fraction of $163B fortune to help homeless, and more.
Federal judge rules against Education Department in student borrower protection cases
"This is such an important win for student borrowers and anyone who cares about a government that operates under the rule of law."
Books, not magazines: Outcry grows over DeVos plan to divert federal...
DeVos’s plan would use federal Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants to pay for firearms and to train educators in their use.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, July 26, 2018
Federal lawsuit against President Trump's business interests allowed to proceed, deadly wildfires rage around the world, Betsy Devos is hurting students again, and more.
Betsy DeVos needs an education on ethics
The student loan sharks who prey on veterans and single moms have a friend in Trump's education secretary.
How low can the barons of high finance go?
Betsy DeVos is bad, but the bankers she serves are even worse.
Accusations brought against Betsy DeVos’ Education Department for failing to negotiate...
“Secretary Betsy DeVos and her management team are attempting to strip employees of their collective bargaining rights and kill the union.”
Betsy DeVos can’t answer basic education questions
"I have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming.”
Betsy DeVos’s attack on public education is just beginning
Devos continues to ignore key issues like racial integration of schools or rectify the harms of segregation.
How privatization cuts us in two, while public institutions make us...
More profits for the privatizers, more health concerns and expense and disdain for the public.
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Garbage in, garbage CEO windfalls out
‘Waste management’ won’t help us confront climate change so long as corporate self-interest rules.
The crowning fiasco: even the king looked embarrassed
The discussion around the British monarchy, which is starting to ignite and will grow and deepen, needs to take in the wider issue of wealth and income inequality and the poisonous economic system that fuels it.
‘Enormous policy failure’: states throw hundreds of thousands—including many children—off Medicaid
"We knew this was coming," wrote one policy expert. "But we still treat these burdens like they're unavoidable natural disasters."
Supreme Court ruling against EPA ‘undoes a half-century of progress’ in protecting waters of...
"It puts our Nation’s wetlands – rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds connected to them – at risk of pollution and destruction, jeopardizing the sources of clean water that millions of American families, farmers, and businesses rely on."
How workers in the South are defying history
The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.