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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China will decide the outcome of Russia v. the West
Is Putin the face of the future or the final gasp of the past?
Why we’ll fix the climate crisis
Humanity has always been resilient. When our backs are against the wall, we will stand up and fight against whatever is trying to hold us down.
The current US Supreme Court is not constitutionally legitimate
Dobbs is a watershed attack that will come to be known as an infamous consolidation of an unrelenting extremist assault on this country's gains for equality and justice.
How greedy corporations fuel inflation
“Companies make any kind of excuse to raise prices on everything."
US Court of Appeals overturns EPA’s decision that glyphosate is safe for humans and...
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto-Bayer’s pesticide, is the most widely used pesticide in the world.