The Education Department’s reclassification of ‘professional degrees’ is the latest installment in a long history of excluding Black people, women, and working-class people.
President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.
"Trump and Elon Musk have aimed their wrecking ball at public schools and the futures of the 50 million students."
Officials are discussing executive order as part of efforts by Musk’s Doge team to seize control of federal spending
A recent Department of Education decision marks a victory for Palestine solidarity organizing, but the fight isn’t over.
While it is doubtful that US President-elect Donald Trump ever read George Orwell's 1984, Trump's cabinet choices appear to come right out of the doublethink that ruled Orwell's dystopian society. In Orwell's book, the Ministry of Plenty rationed essentials while the Ministry of Truth manufactured falsehoods. Trump's choice for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is perhaps the most extreme of Trump's cabinet nominees.
It’s been 20 years since federal Pell Grants were revoked from prisons during the tough-on-crime heyday of the 1990s, amid a bipartisan political fervor that helped transform U.S. prisons from a corrections system to a punishment business. Two decades later, mass incarceration is a runaway train, and America imprisons so many more people than any other country that it’s hard to even compare the thing in one chart.
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