Report: Betsy DeVos Considering Federal Funds to Arm Teachers
Oliver Contreras/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is considering a plan to use federal funds to help purchase firearms for educators or provide them with weapons training, the New York Times reported on Wednesday night. The funds would come from a pot of money intended…
Betsy DeVos Is Making Life Harder for Students Screwed Over by Predatory For-Profit Schools
United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in July.Olivier Douliery/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Under the Obama administration, the Education Department made it a top priority to curtail predatory practices by for-profit colleges. It investigated and sanctioned schools…
Jeff Sessions Just Accused Colleges of Creating “Sanctimonious, Sensitive, Supercilious Snowflakes”
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions looks on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Olivier Douliery/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned that colleges and universities are “coddling” young people instead of encouraging them to engage with different viewpoints. At a high school leadership…
A New Lawsuit Alleges Trump’s Education Department Is Failing Students of Color With Disabilities
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing in June 2018. Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) filed a federal lawsuit against Trump’s Education Department, challenging the…
At a School Safety Conference, Sessions Spent a Lot of Time Defending Trump’s Immigration Policies
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on immigration and law enforcement actions to cadets from Lackwanna College Police Academy.Michael Candelori/Pacific Press/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, US attorney general Jeff Sessions doubled down on the Trump Administration’s immigration policies during a speech to 1,000 school cops at…
Betsy DeVos Has Scrapped More Than 1,200 Civil Rights Probes Started By the Obama Administration
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Whether schoolchildren in DeSoto County, Mississippi, are paddled varies by their race. Black students are almost two and a half times more likely than whites to endure the corporal punishment permitted under school district policy…