Tag: Betsy DeVos
Betsy DeVos as the Secretary of Education
The keys to authentic education have always been interest and ability and when these are absent so too is authentic learning.
Trump, Betsy DeVos and the plan to end democratic education
Trump’s victory and DeVos’s voucher advocacy could motivate Republican supermajorities to cut further from education in an effort to move public education into the private sector.
Sanders questions Trump’s Education Secretary pick: ‘If you were not a...
DeVos admitted that it was a possibility that her family gave $200 million to the Republican party.
Will Betsy DeVos restart the ‘Education Wars’?
This time the lines dividing political parties won’t be blurred, and Democrats will know whose side they should be on.
Trump is taking on Wall Street, literally
The next administration will have plenty of billionaires – and no working class populists.
Senators call for Trump’s education secretary nominee to pay $5.3M in...
DeVos has neither responded to their letter, nor announced any plans to ensure payment of the delinquent fines.
How much could Trump’s education secretary damage public schools? Just look...
Detroit schools help explain Betsy DeVos’ mission.
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.