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June 15, 2017
Betsy DeVos Moves to Help For-Profit Schools Defraud Students
The Education Department just froze two key protections for students.
David Dayen
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May 16, 2017
Why I Turned My Back on Betsy DeVos During Graduation
I would change nothing. I began at my university to learn, and I now depart it to serve.
Tyler Durrant
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April 19, 2017
What Betsy DeVos’s Emphasis on ‘Choice’ Means for School Segregation
The education secretary’s policies stand to make divisions in our schools and neighborhoods worse, not better.
Michelle Chen
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April 14, 2017
Reclaiming Public Goods Under Trump
The Roosevelt Institute is launching the Re:Public Project to fight privatization.
Joelle Gamble and Aman Banerji
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April 3, 2017
Bernie Sanders Just Introduced His Free College Tuition Plan
Joining with Elizabeth Warren, Sanders wants students to organize around the legislation.
George Zornick
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March 31, 2017
Trump’s Administration Is Making It Easier for For-Profit Colleges to Screw Over More Students
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has already picked a for-profit college official for her team—are more to come?
Michelle Chen
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March 30, 2017
Letters From the April 17, 2017, Issue
For the public, not profit… Russia’s a touchy subject… Book learning: Hitler and the labor movement…
Our Readers
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March 7, 2017
Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda Can Be Overturned. This City Shows How.
What Philadelphia’s fight against market-driven school “reform” can teach us about resisting attacks on public education.
Helen Gym
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February 8, 2017
Betsy DeVos Has Been Confirmed. Now the Fight Really Begins.
DeVos will have significant influence over how civil-rights protections for students are enforced, and how the for-profit college and student-loan industries are regulated.
Zoë Carpenter
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February 1, 2017
How Alaskan Activists Got a Key Republican Senator to Oppose Betsy DeVos
Unions and education activists urged Lisa Murkowski to oppose Trump’s education pick. On Tuesday, in a testament to the power of grassroots resistance, Murkowski switched.
John Nichols