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Betsy DeVos

August 2023

  • Donation has drawn criticism, particularly given the team’s claims of supporting DEI ‘all year long’.

    Orlando Magic NBA team donated $50,000 to Ron DeSantis Super Pac

    Following reports of the donation, the National Basketball Players Association called the donation ‘alarming’

October 2021

  • Moira Donegan

    Another reckoning over sexual assault in US colleges is starting. Officials must listen

    Moira Donegan
    School administrations seem to endanger survivors’ access to education more often than they hold their abusers accountable

January 2021

  • US education Secretary Betsy Devos has resigned

    US education secretary Betsy DeVos resigns, blaming Trump 'rhetoric' for violence

    Transportation secretary Elaine Chao, deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger and former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney also quit

July 2020

  • Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Warren campaigns in Houston<br>Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, endorses Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at a campaign GOTV town hall meeting in Houston, Texas, U.S., February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

    'Reckless, callous, cruel': teachers' chief denounces Trump plan to reopen schools

  • The US secretary of education, Betsy Devos, repeated Donald Trump’s threat to pull funding from schools that do not reopen.

    Betsy DeVos insists all US children should be in school this fall

May 2020

  • Transgender athletes

    Policy allowing transgender athletes to compete as girls found to violate US law

  • Betsy DeVos<br>FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies during a hearing of a House Appropriations Sub-Committee on the fiscal year 2021 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the U.S. illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congress as part of a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package. DeVos issued the restriction in new guidelines released Tuesday, April 21, 2020, telling colleges how to distribute more than $6 billion in grants meant to help students cover unexpected costs triggered by the pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

    Betsy DeVos rolls back Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault

April 2020

  • While Betsy DeVos has stopped donating to political causes while she serves as education secretary, her family has kept up the flow of cash.

    Why the DeVos family's backing of the Michigan protests is no surprise

    The Trump-supporting education secretary and her billionaire family have for years promoted rightwing causes and candidates

February 2020

  • FILE PHOTO: The exterior of The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. The head of the department, Dr. Charles Lieber, is charged with lying to the federal authorities in connection with aiding China, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Katherine Taylor/File Photo

    Harvard and Yale accused of failing to report millions in foreign gifts

    Department of Education opens investigation, saying money accepted from China, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere may be ‘significantly underestimated’

December 2019

  • “US secretary of education Betsy Devos continues to refuse debt forgiveness for thousands of students ripped off by predatory for-profit colleges.”

    I taught at a 'for-profit' college. They're predatory disasters

    David Andrew Stoler
    Students rack up debt for worthless diplomas – debt they default on at twice the rate of their peers at traditional colleges

September 2019

  • FILE PHOTO: Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty to sexual assault, listens to victims impact statements during his sentencing in the Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte<br>FILE PHOTO: Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty in November 2017 to sexual assault, listens to victims impact statements during his sentencing in the Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Michigan, U.S., January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Picture

    Michigan State University fined $4.5m in Larry Nassar case

    US education department demanded changes after investigation found the school violated the Clery Act

June 2019

  • Ross Barkan

    The Trump administration is waging a quiet war on education

    Ross Barkan
    The Trump/DeVos vision of American education? Unshackle the rich and let them turn a profit at the expense of working-class students

April 2019

  • Betsy DeVos knew about dangers posed to transgender students before rolling back protections – video

    Betsy DeVos knew about the potential harms to transgender students before rolling back Obama-era protections

March 2019

  • Sophie Lacourse-Pudifin of Canada competes during the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

    Special Olympics: Trump reverses plan to cut all funding

  • US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testifies before the Senate Committee<br>epa07469004 US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the proposed 2020 budget for the Education Department on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 28 March 2019. Secretary DeVos has taken criticism for a budget cut of 18 million dollars for the Special Olympics. EPA/SHAWN THEW

    Trump administration plan to gut all Special Olympics funding branded ‘appalling’

November 2018

  • A portrait photo of college student Jen Wilson the day she graduated from the now-defunct Everest University, a for-profit college.

    'Phenomenally saddening': inside the sordid world of America's for-profit colleges

    The new documentary Fail State, executive produced by Dan Rather, tells the 50-year tale of profit-driven colleges scamming society’s most vulnerable

September 2018

  • ‘We, the people, are the root and tree of American democracy. We have no king, and no individual – not even a president – can usurp that.’

    Guardian US teacher takeover
    How weak schools serve Trump's agenda

    Arne Duncan
    Of course the president says he loves the ‘poorly educated’: authoritarian regimes benefit when citizens lack education, writes Obama’s education secretary
  • Jill Filipovic

    Are sexual harassers about to have free rein on American campuses?

    Jill Filipovic
    Betsy DeVos, Trump’s secretary of education, is planning to water down sexual misconduct rules. This is yet another sign of hostility towards survivors writes Jill Filipovic, author of The H-spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    Louis CK's comeback shows nine months is long enough, apparently

    Arwa Mahdawi
    We should be asking ourselves how CK’s abuse of power robbed his victims of opportunities – and that he is not the victim

August 2018

  • US president Donald Trump at the White House.

    Digested week
    Not even Donald Trump could hate-tweet at a dead man

    Also this week: US media attack Corbyn, actor Cynthia Nixon’s first political debate, and raccoons
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