Category Archives: Education

DeVos, promising to do more to protect the rights on those accused of committing crimes against women on campus, says, “If everything is harassment, then nothing is”

By Mark | September 7, 2017

There was an interesting article in the New York Times just after the election about the 53% of white women, and 42% of women across the board, who cast their votes for Donald Trump in 2016. [note: A whopping 64% of non-college educated white women voted for Trump.] Well, I was reminded of the piece […]

Also posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Tagged Betsy DeVos, Candice Jackson, college, date rape, Department of Education, false accusation, higher education, rape, Scott Pruitt, sexual harassment, Steve Bannon, title nine, white victimhood, white victimization | 11 Comments

DeVos’s choice to run the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Office once claimed discrimination for being white

By Mark | April 16, 2017

A few days ago, right before the Easter holiday, when no one was paying attention, Betsy DeVos, our public education hating Secretary of Education, announced that she’d be bringing on a 39-year-old attorney by the name of Candice Jackson to be her deputy assistant secretary in the Office for Civil Rights. Here, if you’re unfamiliar […]

Also posted in Civil Liberties | Tagged administrative state, affirmative action, Betsy DeVos, Candice Jackson, civil rights denier, Department of Education, feminism, Hillary Clinton, racism, Scott Pruitt, Steve Bannon, Their Lives Foundation, white nationalism, white power | 6 Comments

Republicans introduce bill to replace 1965 legislation that guarantees free and equitable public education for all with a national voucher program intended to kill public education as we know it

By Mark | February 21, 2017

On January 23rd of this year, two weeks before billionaire turned anti-public education crusader Betsy DeVos was sworn in as Secretary of Education, Congressman Steve King of Iowa introduced HR 610, a bill which, if passed into law, would replace Lyndon Johnson’s landmark 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) with something that King and […]

Also posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Tagged 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Bible, call to action, charter schools, dismantling of public education, Education and Workforce Committee, equality, equity, ESEA, Free Appropriate Public Education, homelessness, homeschool, HR 610, IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Iowa, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Bishop, Minneapolis Start Tribune, National School Lunch Program, Network for Public Education, Nevada, nutrition, pledge allegiance, poverty, private school, privatization, racism, religious extremism, School Choice Act, School Lunch Initiative, school lunches, school vouchers, Steve King, Tim Walberg, war on poverty | 17 Comments

Michigan, the state where Betsy DeVos has fought the past several decades to deregulate the charter industry and weaken public education, finishes dead last of all 50 states when it comes to student proficiency improvement

By Mark | February 20, 2017

Citing the good work she’d done in Michigan, the Detroit News endorsed Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education this past January. The Amway heiress, they told us, based on what she’d accomplished here in Michigan, was a “sound choice” – someone who would “strive to improve education for all kids.” The “hysteria” over DeVos, they […]

Also posted in Michigan, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, Betsy DeVos, Brian A. Jacob, Brookings Institution, charter schools, Department of Education, deregulation, Detroit News, dismantling of public education, Donald Trump, for-profit charter schools, NAEP, National Assessment of Education Progress, political endorsements, proficiency, public education, Rick Snyder, Secretary of Education, threats to public education | 5 Comments

Influential conservative group with ties to the Trump administration and Betsy DeVos calls for the “gradual, voluntary return at all levels to free-market private schools, church schools and home schools as the normative American practice.”

By Mark | February 15, 2017

I’ve yet to see a copy of the five-page document, but it’s being reported that the Council for National Policy, a group the New York Time calls “a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country,” has started circulating a policy paper on education reform in the United States. […]