While Trump's administration was imprisoning children, giving concessions to North Korea, and relishing a Muslim Ban, his White House laid out plans to crush social programs.
Trump, spurred on by conservatives who want him to slash safety net programs, unveiled on Thursday [June 21, 2018] a plan to overhaul the federal government that could have a profound effect on millions of poor and working-class Americans.
Betsy DeVos is destroying the Department of Education and in turn our students and future. The Education Department has issued a new manual allowing officials to dismiss hundreds of civil rights complaints, basically because it would be a lot of work to evaluate all of them. There's so many complaints that it's best to just ignore them all. That's what DeVos and her cronies think. Disgusting.
In early February, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Education Secretary. Two Republicans, Senators Murkowski (AK) and Collins (ME), joined the entire Democratic caucus to force an historic tie-breaking vote from Vice President Pence. Read more at this link. Her installation to a position of power over our education system means she spends every day implementing policies with destructive consequences for our country.
The Trump administration is considering restrictions on students and researchers from China over concerns that they could be sharing American technology and trade secrets with the Chinese. They would bar Chinese citizens from engaging in research at American universities and research institutions.
The consequences of Trump's repeal of DACA are real, unjust, and devastating. Congressional Republicans lack of action on the topic ought to push each of their spineless bodies out of office.
Arizona students protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will no longer be eligible for in-state college tuition, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
.....DACA recipients, often called DREAMers, who have been granted "lawful status" but not "legal status" do not qualify to pay resident rates.
The slogan "Drain the Swamp" actually meant undoing many well-researched societal protections put in place over the years. These protections, known to most as regulations, can take years and sometimes a decade to implement. Republicans are thrilled to have control of Congress despite the lunatic in the White House so they can undo as many as possible at the behest of their corporate overlords.
Trump and the regulators he appointed....delaying key regulations and imposing fewer penalties against financial institutions and other corporations accused of wrongdoing....
The Department of Education exists to improve the quality of learning for all children which results in an enhanced future for all of us. Under the fake leadership of Trump, Betsy DeVos, and others, the Department of Education is making decisions directly against the interests of our students, our children, and our future in order to protect for-profit schools who fail them and loan servicing companies who ruin their lives seeking repayment. This is despicable and represent America at its absolute worst.
Betsy DeVos is at it again, using her time as the head of the Department of Education to harm students, teachers, and our education system while protecting the corporate interests she's beholden to. It's the one thing she's sort of good at.
The existing program, called Borrower Defense to Repayment, provides relief to federal student loan borrowers who attended a school that misled them or engaged in other misconduct in violation of certain laws.
A new directive hidden between Christmas and New Years Eve has been uncovered. It represents the yet another attempt by Trump's political appointees to change government spending by bringing politics into grant funding for important research. While they claim they're seeking to curb potentially wasteful spending, they are in fact stopping research whose results they and their donors would dislike.
We are overwhelmed during the past week with the tax scam bill, Alabama Senate election, CHIP defunding, and Trump's Muslim Ban being upheld temporarily.
Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress begin work last week to gut and rewrite of the laws that govern our nation's higher education system. It is now known as "Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity Through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act."