betsy devos
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Trump Administration Blocked Investigation Into Student Loan Forgiveness Program
As student loan debt grew into a $1.5 trillion crisis, Trump administration officials coordinated a deliberate effort to obstruct a watchdog agency from investigating abuse by student loan servicers, circumventing a law that offered debt forgiveness to college graduates. In 2007, Congress created the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, a plan with a simple idea:…
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Lock Her Up! Betsy DeVos Could Face Jail for Failing to Forgive Student Loan Debt
How corrupt is the Trump administration, you ask? So corrupt that the Department of Education, under the leadership of Trump appointee Betsy DeVos, has still been hounding former students of Corinthian Colleges Inc. to pay their student loan debts. Those same students that were promised that their debts would be forgiven because they were defrauded by…
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Access Is Not Inclusion: Meet the Harvard Professor Who Studies Low-Income and Disadvantaged College Students
“Education alone does not erase generations of exclusion, racism that we see in the housing market, that we see in the job market, that we see in the very DNA of this country.” — Professor Anthony Jack, Ph.D. text When I was in high school, I was an idealist—especially when it came to my education.…
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Lock Her Up! Betsy DeVos Used Her Personal Email for Government Business
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, aka America’s most sinister church bake-goods saleswoman, used her email occasionally for government business and hasn’t saved the messages, according to an internal investigation released Monday. The Associated Press reports: The agency’s Office of Inspector General, which was investigating at the request of House Democrats, said it searched the department’s email…
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Texas Tech Medical School Will No Longer Consider Race in Admissions, Caving to Pressure From the Trump Administration
The most sinister PTA mom, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, is going to war with affirmative action, and at least one school has caved to the pressure. According to NBC News, race will longer be considered in deciding admission at Texas Tech University medical school, which is bowing to the Trump administration’s push to end affirmative…
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Donald Trump Decides Cutting Funding to the Special Olympics Isn’t Such a Good Idea After All
After he let his education secretary get flamed by every single person on the planet with compassion in their heart, y’all little “president” has decided to dial back his decision to cut funding for the Special Olympics from the federal budget. As the Washington Post reports, Donald Trump made the decision after he let Betsy…
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Betsy DeVos Is Now the 2nd Worst Person in the Trump Administration After Defending Nearly $18 Million In Cuts to Special Olympics
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos may have just edged out the Devil’s mouthpiece press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and is closing in on Trump for “Most hated member of this entire vomit-inducing administration” after defending budget cuts to….wait for it… the Special Olympics. You have to be pretty dam low to cut funding to the Special…
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Trump, Devos Propose Cap on Student Loans, Ushering in a New Era of Academic Inequality for Working-Class Families
Utter the words “Sallie Mae” around anyone over the age of 18, and there’s an 87% likelihood they’ll either break out in hives or convulse on the floor with a seizure. But for many of us who opt to pursue higher education, student loans are a costly—if not necessary—evil. As such, our alleged president Donald…
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Betsy DeVos Thinks Teachers Should Carry Guns Even Though She Has No Idea What That Means
Because the entire Trump administration is really just one big unending Steven Seagal movie, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has given a slow Birdman hand rub to teachers being armed despite opposition from people who are actually knowledgeable about two things that DeVos seemingly knows nothing about: educating students, and guns. Let’s be clear, Trump threw…
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The Education Department Is Canceling $150 Million Of Student Loan Debt and Betsy DeVos Can Stay Mad
I didn’t come here to praise Betsy DeVos. So, I won’t. Nearly 15,000 emails to former students and parents of students who attended college campuses overseen by now-defunct Corinthian Colleges and other for-profit institutions like ITT Tech were sent. Thanks to an Obama-era provision called the Automatic Closed School Discharge, everyone who received one has…