Tag: Betsy DeVos
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.
Graduating students boo Betsy DeVos during commencement speech
“For someone to come and speak at my commencement that cannot relate to me or know what I have been through is kind of like a slap in the face.”
With eye on DeVos, students take fight for free higher education...
Students of higher education are joining together to stand up against U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and President Donald Trump.
Security detail protecting Education Secretary cost nearly $8M over 8 months
Narrowly confirmed after Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate, DeVos is the first cabinet-level official to receive protection from the marshals service since 2009.
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ERIC Crow, Jim Crow’s liberal twin
I don’t for a minute believe that the Pew Trust is out to wipe away African-American voting rights; just the opposite, they are the quintessential do-gooders. They just don’t do any good.
Corporate hypocrisy on racism
Far from being the solution to systemic racism in America, these billionaires and their corporations are actively perpetuating it.
As COVID-19 cases spike, epidemiologist warns ‘the road to an uncertain vaccine is paved...
We speak with Dr. Ali Khan, epidemiologist and the dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, about the Trump administration’s handling of the crisis and his hopes for a vaccine.
US corporations a driving force behind ‘unprecedented wave’ of global land privatization: Report
The U.S. in particular, the report says, is a "key player in an unfettered offensive to privatize land around the world."
Noam Chomsky on Trump’s disastrous coronavirus response, WHO, China, Gaza and global capitalism
"This is the most crucial election in human history, literally. Another four years of Trump, and we’re in deep trouble."