Report Indicates Christian and Career Colleges Were Unfairly Targeted Under the Biden Administration
“the Biden-Harris Department of Education has been engaged in a long-running scheme to punish Christian colleges that are ideologically opposed to the left’s agenda”
This is just one of the many reasons why Trump needs to put a special focus on education over the next few years.
FOX News reports:
New report shows nearly 70% of Biden admin’s education enforcement targeted Christian and career colleges
A report showed that nearly 70% of enforcement actions executed by the Biden administration’s Education Department targeted faith-based and career schools.
According to a press release published by the American Principles Project (APP), they drew on newly obtained data finding that nearly 70 percent of the Department of Education’s (ED) enforcement actions dealt with faith-based and career schools, even though those schools represent less than 10 percent of students in the US.
APP Policy Director Jon Schweppe said the Democrats have been “busy weaponizing every part of the federal government to target their opponents” for the past four years.
“While major assaults from agencies like the Department of Justice have taken most of the headlines, we should not ignore similarly corrupt efforts in other agencies as well,” Schweppe said.
“As our report details, the Biden-Harris Department of Education has been engaged in a long-running scheme to punish Christian colleges that are ideologically opposed to the left’s agenda. The unfair targeting of these institutions has been egregious, and it needs to stop immediately.”
The APP notes that two of the nation’s most prominent Christian universities, Grand Canyon University (GCU) and Liberty University, were subject to scrutiny by the ED. Both of these institutions faced record-level fines worth significantly more than “all penalties imposed over the past seven years combined,” including fines imposed on Penn State ($2.4 million) and Michigan State ($4.5 million) relating to Jerry Sandusky and Larry Nassar’s respective sexual crimes.
GCU currently faces a hurdle while appealing a $37.7 million fine imposed by the ED in November of last year for allegations that the Arizona-based institution misled students about the cost of its doctoral programs over several years.
Furthermore, Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in April vowed to shut down GCU during a House Appropriations Committee hearing about for-profit colleges. The Biden administration official claimed that “predatory schools” are “preying on first generation students.”
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So what’s the problem? After all, predatory Democrats plan to prey on first-generation immigrant voters.
This is old news. It was well established that the Biden admin was going after colleges that had religious objections to the Ed Dept rules. Now it’s time to fire the Ed Dept and wipe out the fines.
I think that’s the exact opposite of what’s needed. The problem here is that the DOE was doing too much; the solution is to stop doing those things, preferably by shutting it down altogether, but alternatively by requiring every enforcement action to be personally approved by the secretary or a deputy, who should veto at least 90% of them.
More games.
More playing.
More travel.
More hotel stays.
Obviously, that’s where the emphasis needs to be.
Throughout human history, the most important contributions have been made by those who spent large chunks of time playing games with balls. During young adulthood. And traveling. And sleeping in hotels. Just look at the careers of , e.g., William Shakespeare, Galileo, Christopher Columbus, Sitting Bull, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, George Washington, Mark Twain, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jane Austen, George Carlin, Leo Tolstoy, Milton Friedman, Charles Dickens, Susan B. Anthony, Paul McCartney
It was argued that red light cameras are racist because they result in disproportionately more tickets being issued to black drivers than white. The obvious push-back is the argument that black drivers run red lights more than white drivers.
Here, it is claimed that Christian schools are getting more enforcement actions and higher fines. The argument is that they are being targeted. The obvious push-back is the argument that Christian schools are just worse at complying with the law. Can you have it both ways?