Trump Taps Conservative Talk Show Host As USDA Chief Scientist

Sam Clovis has no science background and characterized climate change as “junk science”.

Nika Knight
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Sam Clovis speaks in Johnston, Iowa after quitting former Texas Gov. Rick Perry's struggling campaign. (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

President Donald Trump is expected to pick Sam Clovis, a conservative talk show host who campaigned for Trump in Iowa, for the position of "chief scientist" at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), reported ProPublica and the Washington Post this weekend. The 2008 Farm Bill dictates that the USDA's chief scientist be selected "from among

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New York To Become First State With Sanders-Style Free Tuition

New York will be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students under a state budget approved by lawmakers Sunday, April 9.

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Red Room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (AP/Hans Pennink)

New York is set to become the first U.S. state to make tuition free for students at public state universities and community colleges if they come from low- and middle-income families, a proposal that has been endorsed by former presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, who promised free college education for all during his campaign. The

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Sanders, Warren Propose Free Tuition Plan Funded By Tax On Wall Street

Official estimates put the student debt in the United States at more than US$1 trillion.

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Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., greet one another during a rally Friday, March 31, 2017, in Boston. (AP/Steven Senne)

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, former presidential candidate, along with several other progressive senators introduced a bill that would seek to eliminate college tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities in the United States for students from families that make up to US$125,000 a year. “Our job is to bring

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These For-Profit Schools Are ‘Like A Prison’

Camelot Education takes the students that public schools have given up on. But some current and former students say its discipline goes too far.

Francesca Berardi
Zoë Kirsch
Stephen Smiley
Sarah Carr
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و Zoë Kirsch
و Stephen Smiley
و Sarah Carr
School student handcuffed jail prison youth education

(REPORT) --- Teenagers at Paramount Academy sometimes came home with mysterious injuries. An alternative school for sixth- through 12th-graders with behavioral or academic problems, Paramount occupied a low-slung, brick and concrete building on a dead-end road in hard-luck Reading, Pennsylvania, a city whose streets are littered with signs

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Trump’s School Choice: Religious Fundamentalism At Taxpayer Expense

Under Trump’s school choice plan, public money slated for education could be funneled into private religious institutions that teach often false, and sometimes bigoted concepts.

Jeff Bryant
بواسطة Jeff Bryant
Students hold up paper crosses during at Christian High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. March 5, 2014. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

President Donald Trump is being praised for a change in tone in his recent address to Congress, but his belligerent attitude toward public education hasn’t changed a bit. While it’s true he stopped short of repeating his claims that public schools are “broken” and a “government monopoly,” what Trump chose to highlight in his remarks about public

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Racial Disparities In Student Arrests Becoming Nationwide Epidemic

In most states, the share of Black students arrested is at least 10 percentage points higher than their share of enrollment in schools with at least one arrest.

Sarah Hinger
بواسطة Sarah Hinger
Chicago Schools Safe Passage

(REPORT) --- Black students make up 15.5 percent of school enrollment nationwide but a staggering 33.4 percent of students arrested. This alarming finding comes from Education Week’s analysis of the latest federal Civil Rights Data Collection from the 2013-2014 school year. This is a problem for all parts of our country. As Education Week

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