Politico Morning Education reports:
DEVOS’ INTERIM FINAL RULE: The rule carries out DeVos’ policy, first announced in April, that is being challenged by two lawsuits for restricting which students can receive CARES Act (H.R. 748 ) grants. It will take effect immediately after publication in the Federal Register, which the department said would happen on June 15.
— DeVos said in a statement that the rule was aimed at eliminating any “uncertainty” for colleges about how they must distribute the funds, while carrying out the department’s “responsibility to taxpayers to administer the CARES Act faithfully.”
— Democratic lawmakers have pushed back, saying the rule violates the intent of the CARES Act. “As students across the country are struggling to make ends meet in the face of unprecedented financial challenges, Secretary DeVos’ efforts to deny some much-needed aid is cruel,” said Senate HELP ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.). “These extreme eligibility requirements will not only harm students, but they are also contrary to Congressional intent.” Read more from Michael Stratford.
TRUMP TO CONGRESS: ENACT SCHOOL CHOICE: President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is renewing his call on Congress to “finally enact school choice now.” During his State of the Union Address earlier this year, Trump promoted his administration’s proposal to create a new $5 billion federal tax credit to expand school choice. The Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act, introduced in the House as H.R. 1434 (116) and the Senate as S. 634 (116), has no Democratic cosponsors in either chamber. “School choice is a big deal,” he told his audience during a “Transition to Greatness” roundtable in Texas.
— Trump said unions and “others” are against school choice for the wrong reasons. “Access to education is the civil rights issue of our time,” he said, adding that he has heard that for “the last, I would say year, but it really is.” He said, “And it creates competition and other schools fight harder because all of a sudden they say, ‘Wow, we’re losing it, we have to fight hard.’”
— DeVos tweeted a video clip of Trump’s statement and wrote, “Education is the pathway to a stronger tomorrow and a stronger America for all. Thankful for @realdonaldtrump’s unwavering commitment to ALL our nation’s students and their success.
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Does the president know he is AGREEING, almost verbatim with President Obama?! Now that’s a headline.
George W. Bush talked about the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” Putting his brother’s and his beliefs about school aside, I truly believe he meant it. Do I believe this guy Not a chance.
The president wouldn’t know a civil right if it was spelled out (in small words) right in front of him.
Does the president know the Supreme Court has ruled on this: Plyler v. Doe?
The man would reverse the Civil Rights Act of 1965 in a heartbeat and send Brown back to the Supreme Court if he could.
I DARE HIM to say “Access to education is the civil rights issue of our time,” at his Juneteenth Speech in Tulsa and his goosetepping rallies in August.
JH,
I agree with your comment except: I don’t believe George W. Bush actually believed that annual testing would create racial equality. It didn’t, it never has, and his blather about “the soft bigotry of low expectations” was insincere campaign sloganeering
Well, “blather” says it all! Thanks for the clarification.
I guess “Mission Accomplished” is in the same ballpark.
EdChoice’s cheerleader in Ohio-
Sen. Steve Huffman (Ohio Senate GOP) who is in the news for racist comments. Ole’ white Steve doesn’t have the decency to resign. He expects the taxpayer to pay his salary while he transitions from the 1920’s to 2020
i cannot believe anyone in their right mind with any intelligetual abilities can ever think that Trump and DeVos will come out with a plan that provides education for all. Never going to happen. They willl come out with a plan for the rich, for students who are NOT handicapped, and the corporates but not for the anyone else. Another hit on our demarcated way of life.
and they will both know exactly which pathway the money takes as they eye a chance for profit
Suggestion for protest signs: Who Know Betsy was Pro-Choice?
It would confuse the hell out of the Idiot’s cult.
Knew…WordPress!!
Betsy DeVos supports a woman’s right to choose!!
Great campaign slogan.
The religious right would ignore the slogan. As Christianity Today reported, the group agrees that, “Trump’s not a good man, he’s a good president.”
Sanctity of life is nothing more than PR to the American theocracy.
The quote from Christianity Today is interesting, “Trump’s not a good man, he’a a good president.” That’s like say saying Satan is not a good man but he is a great Devil.” Makes a lot sense — nonsense.
Forget about school choice. The most important choice in US History will be in November when voters make a choice to get rid of Trump and the GOP majorities in the states and in Congress.
Access to for profit education has nothing to do with civil rights. It has a lot more to do with monetizing mostly poor minority students and placing them in separate and unequal schools. That is actually where the issue of civil rights should be discussed, separate and unequal schools for black and brown students. That is the formula for many charter schools.
The whole “value of competition” among schools is another false assumption of privatization. It is just market based claptrap that has no basis in fact. It is a tired business analogy that does not work in education. Over the past ten years many schools in urban areas have been in ‘competition.’ It has produced a lot more disinvestment in public schools than excellence. A competition in which public schools are continuously forced to do more with less is a race to the bottom, not the top.
Barf barf barf!
Amid National Turmoil and Self-Examination, President Trump Delivers Solemn Remarks on Race in America
TRUMP (snorts Adderall and steps to the podium. There are so many Oklahomans present that to those in the back, he looks like a Cheeto stuffed into a plum. As the President begins to speak, a pigeon knocks over the teleprompter. People scramble to fix it, but Trump waves them off.)
These are dark, uh, not good, times for America. Our country has seen, in the past few weeks, lawlessness and anarchy. Looting. Fires by this group, Antifa. Very big group. They hate America. And some well-meaning protesters. Nobody supports protesters like Trump. So, people call me, they say, what we need now is healing. And I’ve thought about this. I’m a smart guy. I mean really smart. I had this uncle at MIT. And I thought, I don’t know, disinfectants. You might inject them, like a cleaning.
And like other presidents before me, in times of crisis, I have done what needed to be done. I inspected the bunker. I waved a Bible. And I’ve come here today to . . . uh, to speak of uniting our great country. Because that’s what I am, a uniter, not a divider. It’s time for us all to get back together. Back on track. And I want to let every American know, whatever the color of your skin, whatever Christian church you go to, that I’m listening. I hear you. And I will say whatever it is I need to say to win votes before November.
As Churchill said on Juneteenth, back during the Revolutionary War, when the airplanes were capturing the ramparts, “You know. You do what you gotta do.”
So, despite what you might read in the Fake News Media . . . I know. I know. Disgraceful. Despite what they say, there’s one man who can bring America together. Unite it. I’m like the only one. Right? I know. Because Donald Trump is the least racist man in America. I’m the least racist guy, and the blacks, the blacks love me. Where’s that black? Where’s my black? Great guy.
Some of my best friends are black people. Sure, you don’t want to live next to one of them, but that’s not racist. What’s racist about that? See what I mean? I can just hear what the lamestream media is going to say. Trump. He’s racist. But that’s not racist. That’s just how it is. Genes. Different genes. Look at Ivanka. Good genes. If I weren’t her father. . . .
So, when I said we needed to dominate the protesters and and shoot them in the legs and take back the streets and that the governors are all a bunch of pansies, uh, jerks, what I meant was, I fully support their efforts because I have a really soft spot in my heart for black people. All lives matter. Black lives. White lives. Yellow lives. China lives. Jew lives. OK? The life of that woman in Central Park. I’m the best friend the blacks ever had. Maybe Lincoln. Maybe he was almost as good for the blacks. And, as Stephen, uh Steve Miller, keeps reminding me, Coolidge. He likes this guy Coolidge. Something about legislation to deal with this race thing. I don’t know. I don’t know.
But it’s important to me. Nobody cares about this like I do, that the blacks be represented. That’s why I filled my cabinet with Ben Carson. I didn’t even ask anybody to put a C on the applications for positions in my administration. I just don’t see this whole race thing. Don’t see it.
And I’ve got some not fake news for you: I didn’t start this whole race thing. That was Obama. I inherited it. A mess, a total mess. They got cities, you can’t walk in them, you get shot. So I inherited it. As President Truman said, the buck stops with the guy before me. And with China.
Like you, I was just sick about the Jim Floyd thing, watching that. The kneeling on the neck. But let me remind you that it’s just a few bad apples. And something I noticed in the video, but the lame stream media didn’t see. Some people JUST saw the senseless killing. Terrible. Just terrible. But I saw something else. I saw police officers cooperating with one another.
And that’s where our hope lies. Cooperation. You people need to cooperate. I’m sure that George Flood is looking down here today and saying, cooperate with Trump. He’s done more for blacks than Coolidge, Obama, anybody. Gave them a great economy. Best economy ever. Thank you, Mr. President. One day, you’ll be on Mount Rushmore. And to the good people listening on both sides today, just remember that Tulsa has seen examples of just such cooperation in its history. Google Greenwood. Wink wink.
Thank you, and God Bless America.
Perfectly cringe worthy, Bob! Let’s just say you captured his voice and demented mind. Thanks for the laugh!
“DeVos tweeted a video clip of Trump’s statement and wrote, “Education is the pathway to a stronger tomorrow and a stronger America for all. Thankful for realdonaldtrump’s unwavering commitment to ALL our nation’s students and their success.”
Well, except public school students. She and Donald Trump have done nothing for them.
DeVoodoo is sick and dumb.
And talking about that dump’s” unwavering” commitment to ALL our nation’s students and their success??????
Is this a JOKE?
DeVoodoo and that DUMP have no clue what it means to be educated, nor do they want en educated citizenry.