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...
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...
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...
