Tag: Betsy DeVos
Like her boss, Betsy DeVos makes a disaster all about herself
“It’s going to be a profit boom for charter schools, and it’s going to hasten the demise of traditional public schools.”
Wanted: Strong candidates who believe in public schools
What does it take to provide quality, top-notch education for our students?
Don’t trust business with education
Greasy politicians use education funds to enrich corporations – and themselves.
Why teachers don’t trust Betsy DeVos, and neither should you
While DeVos gives the silent treatment to news organizations, public officials, rights advocates, and educators, she maintains an open-door policy for those prone to agree with her.
Should we entrust our schoolchildren to corporate profiteers?
The DeVos couple are pushing plutocratic policies that reject our country's one-for-all, all-for-one egalitarianism.
Betsy DeVos won’t protect LGBTQ students
“Today, the Secretary of Education ... refused to affirm that she would put forward a program that would ban discrimination based on the LGBTQ status of students or ban discrimination based on religion.”
It’s a scam
The irony is obvious - taking money from the taxpaying public to destroy a vital public institution that, unlike charter schools, must take all comers.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren vows to hold Education Secretary accountable
“It’s Betsy Devos’s job to put students – not predatory colleges and the student loan industry – first.”
DeVos budget robs from poor kids to fund schools that discriminate
What Trump and DeVos are proposing in this budget is not only to take resources away from students, but to turn around and give more money to schools that would potentially discriminate against them.
DeVos’s education budget throws students to the loan sharks
It’s clear, no matter which company wins, the students lose.
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Trump’s IgNobel Peace Prize
As if these six victories are not enough, stay tuned for new peace treaties that will end the Wars on Science, Education, Rational Thought, a Free Press, and "the big one"!—Habeas Corpus.
America the FUBAR
After all, the few can do little without the consent of the many. It’s up to the many (that’s us!) to reclaim and restore America.
FCC faces backlash over push to lift media ownership limits amid threats to local...
Press freedom and civil liberties groups warn that loosening media consolidation rules would further erode independent news, local coverage, and democratic accountability.
ICE recruitment campaign offers student loan forgiveness and bonuses as Trump ramps up deportation...
Critics warn Trump is weaponizing student debt to undermine dissent and push ideological loyalty through immigration enforcement
Journalists demand access to Gaza as Israel begins full conquest and press blackout deepens
More than 600 journalists call the press restrictions in Gaza “the worst blackout in modern conflict” as Israel moves forward with plans to fully occupy the strip and restricts independent coverage of its escalating war.