We previously reported on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s major policy speech in which she promised a departure from the Obama-era guidance on how universities and colleges must handle sexual...

You have to give DeVos credit for putting herself out there so often. She has to know this is going to happen.

The Baltimore Sun reports:

University of Baltimore students protest Betsy DeVos as fall commencement speaker

University of Baltimore president Kurt Schmoke defended his decision...

Early Thursday afternoon, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will make an announcement regarding changes to Title IX enforcement.

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In a recent column at National Review, Tiana Lowe suggests Betsy DeVos should end this practice once and for all.

Dear Betsy: End the Kafkaesque Kangaroo Courts of Title IX

Of all of Donald Trump’s cabinet appointees, few have attracted as much ire as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Nor does any other Trump...

This is refreshing. Why do we always seem to have a ‘one size fits all’ approach?

From Real Clear Education:

DeVos in Denver: Education Policy Best Left to States

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos addressed a friendly gathering of conservative state legislators Thursday and promised to minimize the federal government’s role in education policy and...

Social justice warriors really have their claws out for DeVos. Do you remember hearing such rhetoric about any other education secretary, ever?

Campus Reform reports:

Prof calls DeVos ‘a powerful handmaiden’ to the ‘patriarchy’

A University of Kentucky lecturer recently blasted U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos as a “powerful handmaiden” to the “patriarchy”...

Attorney generals in eighteen states and Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos over the delay of implementing regulations sculpted to protect any federal student loan borrowers defrauded by for-profit colleges.

The attorney generals state that DeVos has illegaly delayed these regulations, which should have g...

If you’re wondering why President Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos needs millions of dollars in security, this is one of the reasons. DeVos is trying to make improvements in her department but is being predictably cast as someone who doesn’t care about civil rights.

Erica L. Green writes at the New...

Last night, Professor Jacobson pointed out that the shooting in Virginia yesterday has been in the works for a long time. Our political climate is like a powder keg and people on the left have been whipped up into a frenzy.

That might explain why Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos requires...

Anyone who is good enough to work for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is a safe bet to work in this position. This was an outstanding choice.

Inside Higher Ed reported:

DeVos Appoints First Amendment Advocate to Key Position

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has appointed Adam Kissel, formerly of the Koch Foundation...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos received a chilly greeting from graduating students at Bethune-Cookman University earlier today.

While giving the commencement keynote address, graduating students booed and turned their backs on DeVos.

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This is a perfect example of how conservatives can never win in the minds of the left. If DeVos didn’t do this, she would be criticized for ignoring HBCs. If she does go, it’s framed as controversy.

MLive reports:

Upcoming Betsy DeVos speech at historically black university sparks controversy

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos...

President Trump has signed an executive order to give Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos permission to start the process of moving education back to the local level.

The New York Times reported:

The order requires Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trump’s education secretary, to review, modify and possibly repeal any regulations and guidelines that are...

Betsy DeVos recently visited Valencia College in Florida where she talked about the importance of career prep. Today’s students would be wise to listen rather than getting wrapped up in protests.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports:

In First College Visit, DeVos Praises Career Prep and Community Colleges

Betsy DeVos made her first official...

In the video below, college students are asked for their thoughts on President Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Their responses sound like they came right off a Democratic Party memo: “DeVos isn’t qualified for the position!” and “Anyone but her would have been a better choice!” and “She doesn’t know what...

Trump’s new Secretary of Education seems to understand what’s happening on college campuses.

Robby Soave writes at Reason:

CPAC: Betsy DeVos Thinks First Amendment Rights of College Students Are Under Attack

Speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promised to back school choice policies...

Once upon a time, a certain Senator from Massachusetts wrote about the virtues of school voucher programs. But you’d never know that based on how Sen. Warren criticized newly minted Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos.

Writing to Secretary DeVos upon her nomination, Sen. Warren wrote:

“For decades, you have been one of the nation’s...