Betsy DeVos is the religious fanatic whose access to two unearned fortunes — one from the Amway Ponzi scheme, founded by her husband’s father; the other from her own father’s machining business — has allowed her to project her ideas about eliminating secular public education in favor of Christian indoctrination schools over millions of peoples’ lives, especially the lives of poor people.
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MLMs are cults that prey on moms, Mormons and the military
Pyramid schemes are illegal, but “multi-level marketing” schemes are not; the difference is supposedly that pyramid schemes don’t really sell anything — they just sell the right to recruit people who will recruit people who will recruit people, each paying up the pyramid to their “uplines” — while MLMs supposedly actually sell stuff.
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Trump radicalized teachers, now Republicans are saying they won’t vote for the party anymore
The teachers’ rebellion is a global phenomenon, and though it’s been brewing for a long time, the public was a lot more skeptical of teachers’ demands when they were striking in Democratic strongholds under a Democratic president.
Independent auditor: Trump has made it impossible for students defrauded by predatory diploma mills to get their loans cancelled
The US Department of Education’s Inspector General has released a report saying that the DoE has stopped cancelling the debts of students who were defrauded by fake universities.
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Puerto Rico’s streets crawl with heavily armed, masked mercenaries bearing no insignia or nametags
Though Puerto Rican law prohibits ownership and bearing of most long-guns and especially semiautomatic weapons, the streets of the stricken US colony now throng with mercenaries in tactical gear bearing such arms, their faces masked. They wear no insignia or nametags and won’t say who they work for, apart from vague statements in broken Spanish: “We work with the government. It’s a humanitarian mission, we’re helping Puerto Rico.”
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Kids who attend online charters perform like traditional students who miss the whole year
Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes released this study in 2015, comparing the outcomes for students enrolled in online charter schools with comparable students (controlled for grade level, gender, race/ethnicity, free lunch eligibility, English language status, special ed status and historical state achievement test scores) in brick-and-mortar classrooms.
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Trump’s anti-education Education Secretary owes millions in election fraud fines
Betsy DeVos is the self-described neo-Calvinist and wife of the heir to the Amway fortune who’s devoted her life to fighting against public education through a system of vouchers that allow for public funding of religious schools; in accord with the trumpian maxim of “a fox for every henhouse,” she has been selected to serve as Trump’s Education Secretary.
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