By Amanda Menas Students and educators deserve a secretary of Education who has experience and who is actually a champion of public schools. Betsy DeVos, who has spent decades working to dismantle public education and privatize public schools, is dangerously unqualified and lacks the experience we need in America’s secretary of education. Over the last…
The Trump Administration is building on a long, sad history of voter suppression that makes the journey to education justice even longer.
By Amanda Menas During the coronavirus pandemic, retired educators are hit twice as hard. The virus threatens to ruin both their health and finances. Nearly 2.5 million people dedicated to public service, including many educators, are subject to unfair Social Security penalties when they are already struggling to make ends meet. Joe Biden has promised…
By Amanda Menas All students deserve a great public education no matter where they live, what language they speak at home, or how much money their parents have. But during times of crisis, education cuts loom that would have an outsized effect on students of color. But 2020 presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe…
By Mary Ellen Flannery While the federal CARES Act has set aside more than $6 billion for emergency financial grants to college students to help them pay for food, rent, childcare, and other expenses during the coronavirus pandemic, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos specifically excluded some immigrant students who desperately need the help. DeVos blocked DACA…