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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. “As the nation continues grappling with economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ne...

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, and many others breathed a sigh of relief at the end of Betsy DeVos’ reign as secretary of educa...

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 violence” that “are both deeply troubling and a call to action for the nation.” “A report prepa...

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 two position in the U.S. Department of Education. With Cardona, Marten will play a pivotal role in adv...