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The university would be funded, he said, by “taxing, fining, and suing” private-university endowments
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The institution lies in ruins right when it’s needed most.
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January 3, 2021 12:20 PM
The Wreckage Betsy DeVos Leaves Behind - Clearing the Wreckage at the Education Department | @scoopit via @kiwirip http://sco.lt/...
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The Trump administration can’t just set a timeline without committing to the necessary work to ensure the health and safety of students, teachers and their families.
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US universities must hold hearings on campus sexual assault claims where alleged victims and attackers can be cross-examined, according to federal guidelines.
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The education secretary is working hard to protect the scandal-ridden for-profit education industry from accountability.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, in her most drastic move to deregulate for-profit colleges, announced she would end a rule to force them to prove the gainful employment of their graduates.
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“Once again, the Trump administration works to create confusion where none exists, needlessly muddying civil rights practices in schools,” said Catherine E. Lhamon, assistant education secretary for civil rights under Obama. “The Supreme Court has been consistent over decades in its rulings on lawful use of race in affirmative action and the guidance the Trump administration rescinds today offered nothing more than a clear and practical statement of the law and how to comply with it. Taking away that guidance undermines the steps toward equity school communities have long been taking.”
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made clear even before taking office last year that she was more interested in protecting the companies that are paid by the government to collect federal student loan payments than in helping borrowers who have been driven into financial ruin by those same companies.
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As Betsy DeVos made her way around Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman killed 17 students and teachers last month, a small group of student journalists grew increasingly frustrated at each question they say the controversial U.S. Secretary of Education seemed to dodge.
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Whites are already overrepresented at elite universities and in our nation's leadership.
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The president wants to cut funding for programs such as career and technical education and redirect that money toward school choice.
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The new studies come at an interesting moment, with a proponent of vouchers newly in charge of the Education Department.
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The president will issue guidelines to rescind rules that allow the students to use the bathrooms of their choice at school, an order that caused an internal rift.
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Prominent figures across education expressed outrage and frustration with President Donald Trump’s encouragement of an angry mob that attacked the U.S
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The complaint comes two days after immigration authorities announced that international students could not take only virtual classes this fall without risk of deportation, contrary to more flexible rules this spring as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that forced most schools online.
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A group of professors have been trying for two years to take one away from him.
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If Betsy DeVos persists with this misfire, Congress should step in.
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A former for-profit lobbyist turned department staffer scheduled meetings to discuss two regulations overseeing these institutions—rules that are now being rolled back.
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The Obama-era guidance encourages colleges to take a student's race into account for admissions.
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In her 60 Minutes interview, the education secretary failed to convince policy scholars that she’d improved her understanding of the issues. “I found [the interview] to be somewhere between disappointing and disturbing,” said Claire Smrekar, an associate professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University whose research focuses include school choice. “It just demonstrates—again—an appalling lack of understanding of some public fundamental principles and practices related to public education.”
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The President’s dealings with these important institutions has ranged from out-of-touch to outright bizarre.
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Canadian universities are seeing a surge in applications from overseas students.
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For decades, the United States has welcomed and benefitted from international scholars—but President Trump's travel ban puts that legacy at risk.
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With news that the Trump administration is rolling back former President Obama's guidance on protecting transgender students, State Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson is reminding California students of their rights .
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