Another Look at Michigan Schools
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the request of 60 Minutes, let’s revisit the current state of education in Michigan. The data available to us is limited both in time and in scope, so if we want to get a longer-term handle on things we have to look at overall…
Student Visas Are Way Down, But the Decline Began Under Obama
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reports that student visas were way down last year: The number of visas issued to foreign students fell markedly last year amid stricter immigration policies, State Department data show….Some of the slide can be attributed to stepped-up competition from schools in…
Betsy DeVos Gives a Master Class on How to Bomb Basic Questions About Your Job
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During an interview with 60 Minutes which aired Sunday evening, education secretary Betsy DeVos fumbled through a series of basic questions about the very department she helms, doing her best to answer inquiries on policies like school choice to campus sexual assault. The sit-down with correspondent Lesley…
White House Won’t Seek to Raise Minimum Age to Purchase Guns After All
Karen Grigoryan/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In response to the Parkland shooting last month that left 17 dead, the White House has announced its plan of action that stops short of any major changes to gun laws or imposing a minimum-age requirement that would have drawn opposition from the gun lobby. The…
California Secessionists Are Hoping For A Trump Bump
Mother Jones illustration; Viktorcvetkovic/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Adam Ringel felt the stirrings of national pride at an early age. “Ever since was I a kid, I identified as a Californian, not an American,” he recalled as he sat in the back of a café in San Francisco’s Mission…
The ACLU Is Accusing Nebraska of Illegally Obtaining Death Penalty Drug
Nebraska’s death chamberNate Jenkins/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new letter to the Drug Enforcement Agency from the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska is calling on the DEA to investigate Nebraska State Penitentiary officials for allegedly illegally obtaining drugs to use in lethal injections. Records obtained by the ACLU…