Education budget could end proven programs in favor of perilous policies
betsy devos
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Code of Silence: Will Obama Finally Call Out Trump?
Now, there’s just no excuse. It’s hard to figure out just why the 44th President of the United States won’t directly criticize his incompetent and insane successor, but Barack Obama refused to do so again a few days ago in his John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award acceptance speech (and in his remarks at […]
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These Are Not Normal Times: Obama Has A Moral Obligation to Call Out Trump
Silence in the face of recklessness is inexcusable. That may be a harsh assessment, but it’s not an inaccurate one. In light of the savage damage Donald Trump is doing to our democracy, our institutions and our atmosphere, the man Trump replaced as President has a duty, as both a former President and a citizen, […]
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DeVos Is Set to Reinvigorate the School-to-Prison Pipeline
This is part of the Trump administration’s broader criminalization of black and brown bodies.
Posted inEducation, K-12
Poor Whites Just Realized They Need Education Equity as Much as Black Folk
But they must be able to say the word “equity” to get it.
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“Surprisingly Presidential”
How the GOP became the party of affirmative action for chronic under-achievers.
Posted inEducation, K-12
What Can Betsy DeVos Really Do?
Experts on left and right assess possibilities for expanding school choice and limiting the work of the Office for Civil Rights
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What the Right Did to Carter, The Left Must Do to Trump
You can’t deny the strategy worked. Yesterday, I reaffirmed by 2015 call for progressives to be as vigorous in their defense of President Obama’s legacy as right-wingers are in their defense of President Reagan’s legacy. In that 2015 piece, I noted: [November 4, 2015] marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Reagan’s victory over President Jimmy Carter. […]
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The Maine Non-Event: Don’t Believe the Hype About Senator Collins
Last week, I noted that self-styled “non-Trump” Republicans will try to blame “guilt by association” if they lose their seats in 2018–a crocodile-tear excuse, considering the fact that these Republicans had the option of leaving the party the moment Trump won the GOP nomination; these men and women could have easily declared back then that […]
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DeVos Tries to Enlist HBCUs in Her Ideological War
HBCU’s were not ‘pioneers of school choice.’
