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Aug 22 2013
News
White House: President Obama to "Fundamentally Rethink & Reshape" Higher Education
In an effort to fundamentally rethink and reshape the college, President Obama will kick off a two day bus tour today where he will announce a series of higher education reforms that are not going to be popular with everybody.
The BlazeJun 21 2015
News
The U.S. government's predatory-lending program
Most parents will do just about anything for their children, especially when it comes to education. Predictably at a time when college costs are exploding and students are staggering under more than 1 trillion in debt, one opportunistic lender is making huge profits on loans to their doting moms and dads.
PoliticoSep 29 2014
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Scuttled illegal immigrant housing site in Va. accuses HHS, neighbors of discrimination
Community outrage forced the federal government to nix its plans to house illegal immigrant children at a defunct college in rural Virginia, but the school fought back this month with discrimination complaints accusing both the Obama administration and its own neighbors of bigotry.
Washington TimesNov 12 2016
Opinion
Democrats Have No One to Blame but Themselves for Trump
The Democrats veered to the left, even as they nominated an unlikable candidate from the party’s establishment. Though in many ways the 2016 presidential contest was an uprising against the establishment, let’s face it; Republicans weren’t punished. And that’s not a new development. Twenty-sixteen is the fourth consecutive election in which the GOP has won the Senate and House. Nearly every
Washington TimesJul 13 2019
Opinion
DeVos, charters, & ‘school choice’ hurt African American children
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and charter school operators have denounced the NAACP’s opposition to charter school expansion, arguing that charters provide the best path to improve educational opportunities for African Americans. Charter operators cite what they claim are charters’ higher test scores, graduation rates, and college admissions.
But charters (a.k.a. “school choice”) hurt
Guest Writer - RightNov 30 2019
News
ICE set up a fake university, then arrested 250 people granted student visas
It has been 10 months since unsealed federal court documents revealed that U.S. immigration officials created a fake university to lure foreign-born college students who were trying to stay in the country on student visas that might not have been legal.
The University of Farmington, a fictitious school that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement marketed as a hub for STEM students who
Washington PostJul 04 2012
News
District of Columbia’s Demographics Change, but Democratic Voting Doesn’t
Today we continue our Presidential Geography series, a one-by-one examination of the economic and demographic peculiarities that drive the politics in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Todays special Independence Day stop: the District of Columbia. FiveThirtyEight spoke with Washingtons sole member of Congress, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
If New Hampshire is a light-blue
New York Times (News)Jul 07 2013
News
Republicans demand action on student loan interest rates
Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, faulted Senate Democrats on Saturday for this week's hike in student loan interest rates and urged the upper chamber to pass legislation that resolves the issue as soon as the holiday recess ends.
"For too long, politicians have been in charge of setting these rates, and we keep coming back to cliffs and deadlines like this one," Jenkins said in the GOP
CNN DigitalFeb 12 2020
News
After New Hampshire, minority voters could reshape Democratic race
After Iowa and New Hampshire, candidates are still battling to break out. That may not be easy, as they head to states where they have to appeal to a more racially diverse group of voters.
It may have gone more smoothly than Iowa. But Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary did little to resolve the Democratic presidential nomination contest – and indeed, may have increased the likelihood of a
Christian Science Monitor