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Unions demand Biden cancel student debt for public service workers POLITICO 1 day ago © Mark Wilson/Getty Images Joe Biden speaks at a National Education Association event. Labor unions are making a new push to get the Education Department to use executive action to forgive the student loans of Americans working in public service jobs — the latest pressure from the left for the Biden administration to act more aggressively on student debt relief. A wide range of unions representing teach...

Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a first step toward reversing a contentious Trump administration policy, President Joe Biden on Monday ordered his administration to review federal rules guiding colleges in their handling of campus sexual assaults. In an executive order, Biden directed the U.S. Department of Education to examine rules that the Trump administration issued around Title IX, the federal law that forbids sex discrimination in education. Biden directed the agency to “consider sus...

6 shares House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads the vote to approve a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, at the Capitol in Washington, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON (AP) — A US Congress riven along party lines approved a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a triumph on a bill that marshals the government’s spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation. ...

The Biden Administration’s Attack on Justice March 8 is International Women’s Day (a “holiday” originally brought to you by socialists in the early twentieth century) and it often prompts politicians to say and do silly, symbolic things. Alas, President Joe Biden is no different. Unfortunately, his supposed efforts to help women will end up harming everyone who cares about due process and the presumption of innocence. Biden has already received criticisms for the high number of Executiv...

Email address: Leave this field empty if youre human: Eddie Edwards was confirmed as assistant commissioner for the NH Department of Safety. File Photo/Andrew Sylvia CONCORD, NH – Former congressional candidate Eddie Edwards of Dover was unanimously confirmed as assistant commissioner of the Department of Safety and Gov. Chris Sununu formally nominated his chief legal counsel, John Formella of Portsmouth, to be the next attorney general at the Executive Council meeting Wednesday. The Counc...

Updated Mar 05, 2021 A Betsy DeVos Holdover Is Still In Charge Of America’s Student Loans Advocates want Joe Biden and Miguel Cardona to oust Mark Brown, the head of the Federal Student Aid office. By Kevin Robillard and Rebecca Klein UPDATE: March 5 — New Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has accepted the resignation of Mark Brown and appointed Robin Minor, the deputy chief operating officer for partner participation and oversight for FSA, as acting chief operating officer. â€�...

A new report says Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of the mercenary firm Blackwater, violated a UN arms embargo.

Column: Christian nationalism threatens US education Steve Nelson Modified: 2/12/2021 10:10:03 PM The Jan. 6 violent assault on our nation’s Capitol and New Hampshire’s assault on public education, as encoded in HB 20, are grown from the same seed: white Christian nationalism. In a Feb. 7 Sunday Valley News column headlined “Assault on public education shifts to the states,” Randall Balmer deftly summarized the rapidly increasing number of similar efforts around the nation. While he, I...

10 Feb 2021 A new report at the Institute for Family Studies warns Joe Biden’s promise to expand Title IX campus sex assault protections will attempt to empower his radical administration’s bureaucrats to “shape the sexual norms of future generations.” Manhattan Institute Fellow Kay S. Hymowitz observed that, in 2011, the Obama administration launched its “Dear Colleague” letter to college and university deans to express its horror at what it claimed were “statistics on sexual vio...

On the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to select a teacher to be his secretary of education. Just before Christmas, in a surprise choice, he named Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona to the post. Cardona has been a teacher — albeit for only about five years before becoming a principal and district administrator. Biden has now doubled down on his pro-teacher stance by nominating San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten to be deputy secretary of education, the number tw...