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Betsy DeVos
Teachers Leave For-Profit Charter Schools at Alarming Rates, Report Says
Teachers want more control over their own classrooms.
Outcry Grows Over DeVos Plan to Divert Federal Funds and Put Guns in Schools
The proposal comes after requests from Oklahoma, Texas and other states to train and arm school marshals.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Unfazed by Conflict of Interest Charges
A pilot program with the aim of delivering student loans through prepaid bank cards is vulnerable to a conflict of interest.
Betsy DeVos Tries to Pit Kids Against Striking Teachers: It’s Just Another Right-Wing Scam
Republicans are opposing a surge of teacher activism and have landed on a familiar strategy and talking point: Pitting striking teachers against their students.
Betsy DeVos Wants to Roll Back Critical Guidance on School Discipline
Critics argue this will feed the school-to-prison pipeline.
Betsy DeVos’s “School Choice” Is Really Crony Capitalism
Devos's choices aren't about education at all; they're about making money.
Democrats and Devos: Partners in the Illusion of School Choice?
The US has refused to realize the 1954 mandate of “Brown v. Board” to address deep-seated education inequity.
“Trying to Build in the Rubble of Neoliberalism”: Michelle Alexander and Naomi Klein on Bringing Movements Together
How do we envision the movements necessary to get beyond the existential threats to the planet and its people?
Is Charter School Fraud the Next Enron?
Lack of regulation of charter schools is leaving some open to Enron-level examples of corporate fraud.
From Betsy DeVos to Cops in Schools, Taking on the Education-Industrial Complex
When you destroy a school, you destroy that community; education intersects every facet of life, says organizer Elijah Armstrong.