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Puerto Rico has charter schools.

An article in The Washington Monthly promises Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Higher Education Policy but doesn’t quite deliver.

It’s roughly for the same reason education goes wrong: It ignores parents.

AMCHA Initiative announced that in their recent study, they discovered that gender studies departments across the U.S. were more likely to invite anti-Israel, pro-Israel boycott-aligned speakers to their departments.

That we found in the Washington Post, no less.

Protesters at Harvard University called President Trump’s Department of Education Secretary Betsy Devos a “white supremacist,” without providing proof except for her Caucasian heritage.

A mostly white and male faculty appeared to frustrate an Ohio State University engineering chair because of alleged biases.

President of Bethune-Cookman University, Dr. Edison Jackson, is standing firm on keeping Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s commencement address, despite protests from students and alumni.

President Trump’s budget “blueprint” for the U. S. Department of Education recommends a 13 percent decrease in spending for the agency, but provides few details on how he will reach that goal. Nevertheless, the details that the Trump Administration does provide have already drawn the ire of the education establishment. The blueprint promises to preserve […]

Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference held in the D.C. metropolitan area this week. Her remarks were criticized by the Left, teachers unions and other anti-Trump elements, but you can watch a video of her remarks below (via ABC News’ YouTube page) and decide for yourself whether […]

From the James Martin Center: DeVos’s department is also deeply involved in higher education, but the issues are different. What roils higher education are problems such as excessive costs, lack of intellectual diversity, faltering academic quality, federal overregulation, and threats to free speech and due process. DeVos must appoint a deputy undersecretary for higher education […]

Betsy DeVos, a pro-school choice advocate and philanthropist, has been confirmed by Senate vote to become the next Department of Education secretary to fill President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm DeVos. .@VP Pence breaks tie. U.S. Senate confirms #BetsyDeVos to be Secretary of Education, 51-50. https://t.co/xgthuQB51c #BREAKING […]