Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Betsy DeVos Is Being Sued By 17 States Over For-Profit College Rules
The states' attorneys general suing the Trump administration say the Education Department's refusal to enforce a regulation punishing predatory career programs "leaves students vulnerable to exploitation and fraud."
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Game-Changer: Could Elizabeth Warren’s "Bank on Students" Bill Be An Economic Breakthrough?
The Massachusetts senator's bill has been dismissed as “shameless populist demagoguery” and “a cheap political gimmick,” but could Warren’s outside-the-box bill be a game-changer that actually turns the economy around?
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The Fight to Save Public Schools Moves to Northeastern Tennessee
Resistance to school closures and consolidations is moving beyond big cities like Chicago and Philadelphia into more rural regions — the latest being Sullivan County in northeastern Tennessee, where protests have erupted.
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Shuttered: How America is Selling Out its Schools
Public schools across America are being liquidated by the dozens, with 54 announced recently in Chicago, 23 in Philadelphia and 22 in New York.