Saturday, August 15, 2026

Tag: education department

These activists want to dismantle public schools. now they run the...

The department’s actions and policies reflect a disdain for public schools and a desire to dismantle that system in favor of a range of other options—private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling.

Layoffs at Education Department will continue after Supreme Court ruling

The reduction-in-forces combined with voluntary and incentivized departures would cause an overall mass dismissal of 50 percent of the workforce.

Federal judge orders 1,300 fired employees of Education Department reinstated

District Court Judge Myong J. Joun in Massachusetts reinstated 1,300 Education Department employees and restored "the Department to the status quo."

Elon Musk’s team decimates Education Department arm that tracks national school...

Schools and districts across the country rely on research from the IES and contractors such as the American Institutes for Research to guide best practices in classrooms.

The Education Department will forgive $5.8 billion in student loans for...

Under the new regulation, the department will automatically forgive the debt of borrowers who the Social Security Administration has identified as severely disabled.

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.”

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The mouth of Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park. Photo: Ralf Kiepert / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bulldozers begin clearing ground for border barriers inside Big Bend National Park

Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
The South Lawn of the White House. Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...

Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson at the White House. Photo: The White House, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“Stop Toxic Data Centers”: Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House...

Pearson campaigned against Elon Musk's Colossus data centers in Memphis, and faces Republican state Senator Brent Taylor in November.
Crowds of anti-war protesters filling a London street on 15 February 2003

Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine

The United States has burned through a third of its stand-off missile stocks against a country that spends two percent of what it does, losing at least four F-15s, an F-35 and 24 Reaper drones in the process.