Federal watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed a complaint on Dec. 1 alleging that a top Department of Education (DOE) official gave “privileged access and undue influence” in the department’s policymaking process to the National Education Association (NEA), the teacher’s union where she was previously employed. “As insidious as the teachers’ unions influence…
Watchdog Complaint Alleges Unethical Coordination Between Top Education Official, Teachers’ Union
December 2, 2022
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Capitol Report (Sept. 29): McConnell Says GOP Has 50–50 Chance To Win Senate; DHS: Large Number of War Criminals Living in US
September 29, 2022
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President Joe Biden addresses the nation in response to Hurricane Ian. He says he’s focused on saving people’s lives and homes, not political differences with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Senate passed a short-term funding bill along with tens of billions in new emergency spending. Half of the Senate Republicans pushed back. Senate Minority Leader…
17 GOP State Attorneys General Say Biden’s Title IX Rewrite Jeopardizes Women’s Progress, Safety
September 13, 2022
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A Biden administration proposed rewrite of the landmark Title IX ban on discrimination in public school classrooms and athletic fields will repeal five decades of women’s progress in education and subject female athletes to physical injury and sexual assault, according to a coalition of 17 Republican state attorneys general. In a withering 37-page critique of…
Biden Urged to Drop Title IX Reform That Jeopardizes Freedom of Speech, Religion
A Biden administration proposal to expand the definition of sex discrimination in education “jeopardizes free speech throughout America’s schools, and it is constitutionally flawed when applied in any educational setting to daily conversations,” according to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). The Arizona-based public interest law firm that specializes in First Amendment freedom of speech and…
Movement to Abolish the Education Department, Decades in the Making, Lives On
The very day Congress confirmed Betsy DeVos as the Secretary of Education in early 2017, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced a bill that would dismantle the federal agency she was about to head. “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018,” the one-sentence bill read. Five years later, Massie still believes that the…
Biden Administration Extends Attack on the Free Market in New Rules on Student Debt
August 15, 2022
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Commentary Instead of addressing the college debt crisis, the Biden administration has proposed new rules designed to punish for-profit colleges and stick taxpayers with billions of dollars in debt forgiveness. Taxpayers deserve accountability from the Department of Education, not carrots and sticks that interfere with a free marketplace for higher education. The rules, proposed last month, do…
Unvaccinated Teacher Still Fighting in the Courts Over Her Treatment by NYC Education Department
August 2, 2022
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NEW YORK—Teacher Rachel Maniscalco has been battling New York City’s Department of Education and her own union over the mandatory COVID-19 vaccination since last year. That battle continues to be fought in court. As reported by The Epoch Times in January, she and thousands of her colleagues who refused to receive the mandated vaccination were…
Whoops! Department of Education Makes $300 Billion Accounting Mistake on Student Loans
August 2, 2022
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Commentary What’s $300 billion between friends? A new report from the Government Accountability Office details a breathtaking discrepancy between what the federal government claimed the student loan program would generate, and what it actually costs taxpayers. As GAO explains: “Although the Department of Education originally estimated federal Direct Loans made in the last 25 years…
Medical Schools Violating Federal Law With Scholarships Offered to Select Races: Complaints
Five medical schools are violating federal law by offering scholarships to certain races while excluding others, according to new complaints lodged with the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). The University of Florida College of Medicine, for instance, has a scholarship that is only available to students “who belong to groups that are recognized as historically…
For the Sake of Our Children, Abolish the Department of Education
Commentary I don’t know if there’s a more reactionary, superfluous arm of the U.S. government than the Department of Education. (Well, maybe National Public Radio, whose newsroom called the Hunter Biden story a “waste of time,” but NPR only gets a small government stipend.) During the Trump administration among his most criticized appointees was Education…
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