Healthier school lunch nutrition standards were one of Michelle Obama's signature programs.
Two years ago in May 2017, we posted that Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) Sonny Perdue set his sights on school lunches, postponing rules to make school lunches healthier.
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.
Now her Education Department is proposing savage budget cuts to vital programs. Let's shine a spotlight on what she's trying to do in hopes it exposes her to more sustained criticism.
As we've stated dozens of times, Republicans within the Trump cabinet are HARD AT WORK EVERY DAY to destroy the funding and laws that seek to improve our country and our future. Case in point right here as Betsy Devos has tried to eliminate a law that protects minority children from discrimination in schools. Seriously.
Around $150 million in student loans will be cancelled in accordance with an Obama-era rule that is being implemented by the Department of Education after over a year of Betsy DeVos trying to block it.
The Department of Education said Thursday that it would wipe away student debt for 15,000 borrowers, implementing an Obama-era rule that Betsy DeVos has fought to block for more than a year. The debt cancellations will total about $150 million.
As the Republicans and the Trump administration continues their assault on anything that the Obama administration did, Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) Sonny Perdue set his sights on school lunches almost two years ago. Back in MAY 2017, we posted that Perdue's Republican-led USDA was postponing rules to make school lunches healthier.
Now the next steps have been taken:
Actions have consequences and the Republican leadership's xenophobic immigration policy is stopping the best and the brightest from coming to America. Historically, students have come from across the globe to study at our universities and then contribute to our society, growing our economy and strengthening our nation'a future. Not anymore.
A very positive (for now) update to our July 30, 2018 post. A Judge has stepped in to stop evil and ignorant Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from ending a program designed to help student defrauded by for-profit colleges.
An Obama-era rule designed to help students cheated by for-profit colleges get relief on their education debt finally took effect Tuesday after efforts by the Trump administration to block it.
The headline pretty much tells the story here but please allow us to elaborate a bit.
After the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, started scaling back consumer protections for student borrowers last year, six states and the District of Columbia sped up their own efforts to crack down on abusive lending practices by companies that administer federal loan programs.
Sometimes Republicans give away the entire game without realizing it. OUR Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), designed to protect us, is doing just the opposite. Want proof?
An update to our July 9, 2018 post included below. These expected actions are now official as of July 27th.
The U.S. Education Department is proposing changes to Obama-era rules that offer debt relief for students who were defrauded by their colleges.