department of education
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We Need to Talk About How Schools Handle Racist Harassment Against Students
Just how many times must a student tell you that your school has a race problem before you believe her? Earlier this month, a senior at Elk Grove High School came forward to the Sacramento Bee about experiencing repeated racial harassment at her high school. The school had recently garnered national attention because one of…
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Betsy DeVos Wants to Rewrite Obama-Era Campus Sexual Assault Policy to Add More Protections for the Accused
Betsy DeVos, head of the U.S. Department of Education, said Thursday that she plans to rewrite the Obama administration’s guidance for how colleges and universities handle sexual assaults on campus so that it better protects students who have been accused of committing assault. (Insert needle scratching the record here.) DeVos made her announcement while speaking…
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I Know Trump Didn’t Just Donate His Salary to the Education Department After Proposing a $9,000,000,000 Cut
At this point, I wonder if President Donald von Douche Face even knows what’s in the budgets he proposes, or if Papa Bannon just hands them to him and tells him to initial here and here. I don’t think it’s too much to ask that the president of “people who love deer jerky” know that…
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Federal Student Aid Chief Quits After Refusing to Testify Before House Oversight Committee
James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid, quit his job suddenly Tuesday night and sent an email to his staff outlining his reasons for not wanting to work in the Trump administration. Runcie was an Obama-administration holdover who was first appointed in 2011 and then reappointed in…
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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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People Are Not Here for Cartoon Comparing Betsy DeVos to Ruby Bridges
As surely as the sun rises in the day, white people stay wilding. This time, a cartoonist is drawing fire after publishing a cartoon that compares Donald Trump’s secretary of education, Besty DeVos, and the first black child to attend an all-white school in the South, the iconic Ruby Bridges. Many have picked up on…
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Could More School Choice Equal More Problems in Education Under Trump?
President-elect Donald Trump has been very clear about his plans for education reform under his administration. He plans to reprioritize federal dollars for an additional federal investment of $20 billion toward school choice. This, he says, will give states the option of funding students’ education at the public or private school of their choice. It…
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Obama Administration Encourages Schools to Clarify Role of School Police
The Obama administration is asking schools and colleges to clarify the role of law-enforcement officials who serve campuses, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, the recommendations come after several violent encounters between school police and students, sparking debate about whether authorities are actually keeping children safe or arresting them for no reason. “The…