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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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.