Outgoing Trump administration suddenly embraces deep state ‘resistance’
Betsy DeVos urged Education Department staff to resist Biden administration policies.
By Josh Israel - December 16, 2020Betsy DeVos urged Education Department staff to resist Biden administration policies.
By Josh Israel - December 16, 2020Betsy DeVos doesn’t believe in helping students pay for college.
By Josh Israel - December 10, 2020Joe Biden says he wants to make public colleges and universities free for families that earn less than $125,000 a year.
By Associated Press - December 02, 2020‘I’m not sure there’s a role at the department to collect and compile that research,’ Trump’s education secretary said Tuesday.
By Donna Provencher - October 21, 2020California’s Fuller Theological Seminary has received federal funds in the past.
By Casey Quinlan - October 14, 2020The administration has taken a piecemeal approach, experts say, continuing to target transgender Americans following the historic ruling.
By Casey Quinlan - September 03, 2020Several schools that opened have had to shut down due to coronavirus infections.
By Oliver Willis - August 13, 2020But the Republican senator has previously argued the government shouldn’t interfere with state and local decisions on education.
By Josh Israel - July 23, 2020They say Education Secretary Betsy DeVos violated federal rules by issuing her policy without justification.
By Associated Press - July 15, 2020Trump continues to spread falsehoods about a pandemic that is not under control.
By Associated Press - July 13, 2020Education Secretary Betsy DeVos echoed Trump’s call for schools to open in the fall.
By Emily Singer - July 08, 2020The ACLU said, ‘All that today’s finding represents is yet another attack from the Trump administration on transgender students.’
By Associated Press - May 29, 2020Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ attack on public schools ‘could significantly harm’ low-income students, according to state school superintendents.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 06, 2020Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) asked the education secretary why every decision she has made ‘harmed students instead of empowering them.’
By Josh Israel - December 12, 2019Career officials had recommended forgiving student loans for 200,000 defrauded borrowers.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 11, 2019A new lawsuit may be the only way student loan borrowers get any relief.
By Lisa Needham - December 06, 2019DeVos called an op-ed slamming the striking teachers a ‘must read.’
By Emily Singer - October 30, 2019DeVos was ordered to stop collecting loans students took out from a for-profit college chain. She defied the order.
By Emily Singer - October 25, 2019This administration is really committed to hurting public service workers.
By Lisa Needham - October 16, 2019Congress ordered the Department of Education to make student loan forgiveness easier. Unsurprisingly, they’ve done no such thing.
By Lisa Needham - September 09, 2019It’s a break from the Obama administration, which made a strong commitment to LGBTQ youth.
By Lisa Needham - July 30, 2019Eduction Secretary Betsy DeVos may have broken the law with her use of personal emails to conduct official government business.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 16, 2019The Department of Education has denied 99% of all student loan forgiveness applications.
By Lisa Needham - July 12, 2019Trump’s secretary of education is actively helping the loan industry rip off students all across the country.
By Oliver Willis - May 16, 2019In a congressional hearing, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos admitted that her actions could harm transgender students.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 10, 2019Betsy DeVos defended the Trump administration’s planned attack on Special Olympics, and Congress let her have it.
By Oliver Willis - March 26, 2019The Trump administration proposed a 56 percent cut to work-study funding for low-income and middle-class college students.
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2019Trump’s budget makes cruelty a top priority.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 11, 2019By proposing huge cuts to domestic programs, including education, Trump makes his priorities crystal clear.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 06, 2019The Department of Education has several deregulation proposals, all of which will make it easier for unsavory schools to take money from unsuspecting students.
By Lisa Needham - January 09, 2019