Betsy DeVos will go down in history as the worst Education Secretary to ever hold that office.
These borrowers — more than 200,000 of them — say some for-profit colleges lied to them about their job prospects and the transferability of credits. They argue they were defrauded and that the Education Department should erase their federal student loan debt under a rule called "borrower defense."
CFPB needs to open an investigation into mismanagement of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Thousands of public service workers need protection from ongoing harm.
At the Smart Dissent Education page linked here, we have written over and over and over about the heinous efforts of the worthless Betsy DeVos to destroy our education system. Instead of drastically needed help for our schools and students, DeVos repeatedly inflict more pain in new ways.
The cruelty is the point. No child should go to school hungry. The Trump administration's move to cancel free school lunches for hundreds of thousands of children is cruel.
About a half-million students could lose access to free school meals under a Trump administration proposal to limit the number of people who qualify for food stamps, harm[ing] needy schoolchildren.
At the Smart Dissent Education page linked here, we have written over and over and over about the heinous efforts of the worthless Betsy DeVos to destroy our education system. Instead of drastically needed help for our schools and students, DeVos repeatedly inflict more harm in new ways.
At the Smart Dissent Education page linked here, we have written over and over and over about the heinous efforts of the worthless Betsy DeVos to destroy our education system. Instead of drastically needed help for our schools and students, DeVos repeatedly inflict more harm in new ways.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, written about dozens of times at Smart Dissent including last week, is at it again. CFPB and the Department of Education are supposed to protect students from loan companies that break the law. But Republicans like Betsy DeVos is running the Education Department, giving student loan companies the green light to ignore regulators’ oversight.
The Trump admin wants to shift money for Pell Grants for college education to fund Trump's other pet projects. Pell Grants help low-income students pay for college.
The Trump administration is hoping to shift money for Pell Grants for college education to fund new spending.... Under a budget amendment sent Monday evening to Congress, the administration would use an additional $1,900,000,000 in surplus Pell Grant money to fund other budget priorities...
For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.
In today's Budget Cut Series we're talking about Community Development Block Grants. Let's explain for a second what CDBG funds are:
At the Smart Dissent Education page linked here, we have written over and over and over about the heinous efforts of the worthless Betsy DeVos to destroy our education system. Instead of drastically needed help for our schools and students, DeVos repeatedly inflict more harm in new ways.
Judges have rebuffed the education secretary’s attempts to pause or change a range of Obama-era policies.
For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.
In today's Budget Cut Series, Trump's budget would eliminate the Public Student Loan Forgiveness program – the program that helps America’s public school teachers, nurses, police officers, & other public servants with their student loan debt.