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The fight over the future of public education in America moves to the full...
The above photo was taken by my friend Al Hoff today outside an elementary school in Pittsburg. While I imagine it’s possible that someone could have hung the flag upside down by mistake, I suspect it...
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This Monday, Betsy DeVos is likely to be handed the Department of Education...
I can’t say for certain whether or not the dollar amounts indicated on this chart, which was floating around the internet today, are absolutely accurate, but, from what I know about DeVos, and what she...
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This is the galvanizing moment we’ve been waiting for… Democratic Senators...
[above: Photo by Evan Sutton from today’s protest in D.C. against embattled Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos.] The Senate vote on Betsy DeVos, the pyramid scheme billionaire turned...
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Maybe now would be a good time for us to surround a local school, join hands,...
We got beat today. We just needed one vote to keep Betsy DeVos away from the Department of Education, and we couldn’t manage it. We waged one hell of an assault… occupying the offices of our Senators,...
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5th grade charter school teacher Mika Yamamoto, fired from Michigan’s...
Since this past November, when I interviewed the mother of Josie Ramon, the 12 year old Royal Oak Middle School student who taped classmates chanting “Build the wall” at her and other Hispanic...
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Michigan, the state where Betsy DeVos has fought the past several decades to...
Citing the good work she’d done in Michigan, the Detroit News endorsed Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education this past January. The Amway heiress, they told us, based on what she’d accomplished here...
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The Great International Baccalaureate War of Ypsilanti
Earlier this summer, I heard that the administrative staff and teachers at the Washtenaw International Middle Academy (WIMA), Ypsilanti’s International Baccalaureate middle school, had begun...
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Betsy DeVos called out on 60 Minutes for undermining public education in...
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was just on Sixty Minutes, talking with Lesley Stahl about, among other things, the work she’s done in her home state of Michigan to undermine public education. In a...
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DeVos called before Congress to discuss her secret plans to dismantle public...
Betsy DeVos, Trump’s completely unqualified Secretary of Education, was called to testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee today. It would appear as though members of said subcommittee...
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At Cobo Hall for a photo op, Betsy DeVos dismisses the idea of visiting...
The national championships of the FIRST Robotics Competition were just held in Detroit, and Betsy DeVos, the Trump administration’s completely unqualified Secretary of Education, having successfully...
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