This was the right thing to do.
The New York Post reports:
Coronavirus crisis: Trump suspends standardized tests, student loan payments
President Trump said Friday that elementary and high school kids will not have any standardized test requirement this school year as he also announced that college student loan payments and interest would be...
In the video below, the person registering voters claims he is a student. I have no recollection of anything like this happening to college students who supported Obama and engaged in campus activism on his behalf.
ICYMI: Administrators at @kennesawstate tried to stop @TrumpStudents from registering voters on campus.
This is entirely unacceptable...
This is a great idea. Young people have so many more choices than college, especially in such a robust economy.
Inside Higher Ed reports</...
Can you imagine how differently this scenario would have played out back when Obama was president?
Campus Reform reports:
UAlabama student gov faces backlash for warning AGAINST ‘disruptive behavior’ during Trump visit
President Donald Trump is expected to attend Saturday’s game between Lousiana State University and the University of Alabama and, ahead of his...
Will President Trump be given any credit for attending this event, or will his presence be protested? We’ll see.
Greenville News reports:
President Trump to attend criminal justice forum at historically black Benedict College
President Donald Trump will attend a criminal justice reform forum at the historically black Benedict College in Columbia on Friday,...
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are pushing the idea of student loan debt cancellation for everyone. Trump has now delivered on this issue for one specific and deserving group. Disabled veterans.
Chief Justice Roberts famously wrote that “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
That simple and correct formulation exposes how racial discrimination in the name of anti-racial discrimination perpetuates the problem. It’s a problem inherent in affirmative action based on race,...
When I taught high school English, I realized that education is best handled as locally as possible and developed a hatred for the Department of Education. I’ve often said I would abolish that department immediately if I ever became president.
This may be the first step in the right direction. The White...
Remember the way colleges and universities fell all over themselves to get Obama and members of his team to speak at commencements? How things have changed.
The Daily Caller reports:
Trump Is Only Giving ONE Graduation Speech This Year
President Donald Trump’s commencement address to t...
Progressive college students pushing for free college will go bananas over this. If there’s anyone who deserves a break like this however, it’s disabled veterans.
CNBC reports:
Trump moves to cancel student loan debt for disabled veterans
It may be getting easier for some disabled veterans to erase their student loan debt.
The Department of...
Last week the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee concluded its hearings regarding the confirmation of Kenneth L. Marcus, President Trump’s pick for the position of Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights.
We noted in a post back in October, when the White House first announced the nomination,...
I saw it on Facebook. So it *must* be true. Betsy DeVos’s days are numbered, she’s on her way out, the swamp won.
The rumor was given a big boost when Salon.com ran an Alternet story about it.
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...
Early Thursday afternoon, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will make an announcement regarding changes to Title IX enforcement.
If a report in the NY Times is accurate, the Trump administration is getting ready to take on the most precious of liberal dogmas, the institutionalized racial discrimination in college admissions, aka affirmative action.
The Times reaches the conclusion that affirmative action will be under attack, even though the documents it has...
This is good news. The Trump administration has got to take steps to deal with student debt.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Trump touts plan for students to ‘earn while they learn’
President Trump on Friday touted his administration’s new apprenticeship program as a way for young adults to “earn while they learn” instead of...
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced his department wants to make a few changes to the school lunch programs that former First Lady Michelle Obama pushed through. The Wall Street Journal reported:
Schools, which receive federal funding for meal programs, won’t have to meet certain guidelines for whole grain, sodium...
