betsy devos
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Bethune-Cookman President Threatens to Withhold Students’ Degrees Amid Loud Boos for Betsy DeVos
The NAACP Florida State Conference was right. As Bethune-Cookman University graduates loudly booed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during her remarks at the school’s commencement ceremony Wednesday morning, university President Edison Jackson threatened to withhold their degrees. “If this behavior continues,” Jackson said angrily as DeVos uncomfortably stood beside him with a smile frozen on…
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Betsy DeVos Spoke at Bethune-Cookman and It Went Worse Than Expected
A week ago, Bethune-Cookman University, an HBCU located in Florida and named after Mary McLeod Bethune, announced that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos would be the school’s commencement speaker, and the news went over like a lead balloon. DeVos, a leader in “school choice” with no qualifications for her position besides being a rich white…
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Bethune-Cookman University Officials Ought To Be Ashamed Of Themselves
Bethune-Cookman University, a historically Black university in Daytona Beach, Florida, has invited – and she has accepted – ironically titled Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to be the commencement speaker next week. I’ve read several articles about this because I’ve honestly been trying to understand and what I’ve come up with is that there is…
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Betsy DeVos to Speak at Bethune-Cookman University’s Commencement Ceremony
For some reason unbeknownst to many of us, historically black college Bethune-Cookman University in Florida has announced that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will be the keynote commencement speaker next week. The news is super confusing, considering that the pro-school-choice head of education once famously flubbed that HBCUs were the true pioneers of school choice, rather…
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Woman Who Brought Bill Clinton’s Accusers to Presidential Debate Is Now in Charge of Civil Rights
While Donald Trump was chilling at Mar-a-Lago eating chocolate cake out of that nasty-ass kitchen and listening to the Gap Band’s “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” on an endless loop, Betsy DeVos put an anti-affirmative-action, feminist-hating troll who once claimed to be a victim of reverse racism in charge of civil rights in your…
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Just Removed Some Huge Consumer Protections for Student Loan Borrowers
While we were all distracted by other things Tuesday, Betsy DeVos used her powers as education secretary to roll back some key policy memos issued by the Obama administration that strengthened consumer protections for student loan borrowers. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Department of Education is in the process of issuing new contracts…
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Morehouse College President: We Got Played
There is an old African proverb that has been passed down from the ancestors through generations of black people that goes like this: “Never trust anyone who lets people put their feet on the couch.” After meeting with the Trump administration for two days and reviewing Cheddar Bob’s executive order on HBCUs, Morehouse College President…
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Betsy DeVos Says HBCUs are Pioneers of School Choice. She Is A Fucking Idiot. You Know This. But Still.
You know how you know somebody is batshit crazy based on what you already know or what they’ve been convicted of, but then they level up, just to prove it to you? Betsy DeVos just did that. Nothing about this woman screams “let her lead the children to the promised land” but yet and still…
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Betsy DeVos Is a Stupid, Stupid Person
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is so out of her depth, it’s not even funny anymore; it’s embarrassing. And pretty much this is what everyone who didn’t vote for President Asshat expected. On Monday, after Asshat met with leaders of HBCUs, DeVos, who is so pro-school choice that she damn near hates conventional public education, issued…