Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is infamously unqualified for her job, except insofar as she will help Trump destroy the department. She only got the position because she was a billionaire Republican megadonor who also happens to fund school privatization activists. Her proposals, wherever they have been adopted, have wrecked K-12 education. In recent […]

Betsy DeVos, the unqualified billionaire and GOP megadonor heading Donald Trump’s Department of Education, has long hinted she wants to roll back Title IX civil rights guidelines, which give campus sexual assault survivors a right to fair adjudication by school administrators. At her confirmation hearing, DeVos refused to promise she would uphold the guidelines in their […]

When Donald Trump nominated Betsy DeVos as his Secretary of Education, it was immediately clear that her main qualification, in the administration’s view, was her willingness to help them all but destroy the department entirely. Her lack of readiness for the actual work the job entails was made even more evident during her confirmation hearings, […]

Education Secretary Betsy Devos is not good for education in America. Her positions come as no surprise to anyone who believes in public education. We are braced for the worst. But that doesn’t mean a single day can go by when her policies are not documented and resisted. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) demonstrated how to do just that […]

Trump Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos already faced stiff opposition to her confirmation over her lack of competence and opposition to public education, and sparked even greater outrage when she remarked that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were a great example of “school choice.” Combined with Donald Trump’s recent attack on the constitutionality of federal funding […]

When Donald Trump appointed Betsy DeVos — a billionaire and major donor to his presidential campaign — to be his education secretary, alarm bells rang throughout the education community. DeVos is a well-known opponent of public schools, and her family has donated millions of dollars to organizations that fight against civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and […]

Months after Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos posed with Special Olympics athletes at a Capitol Hill event, the Trump administration’s proposed budget slashes funding for the program that helps so many. In February, DeVos participated in the organization’s event, and according to Special Olympics, “heard first-hand from athletes and family members about the impact Special […]