Betsy Devos: Last News

Parents groups and advocates blasted the National Education Association for an odd tweet picturing former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos while warning followers to "check" their kids' Halloween candy. "Parents and educators, be sure to check your kid's Halloween candy this year," the NEA, the largest teachers union in the U.S., wrote on Wednesday. "We just found an out-of-touch billionaire funneling dark money to undermine public education inside our candy bar.

was found of wire fraud and deliberately misleading investors. Now, 10 months later, she has finally received her sentence: years in prison and 3 years of supervised release, according to Law360 reporter Dorothy Atkins.

Amanda Seyfried has revealed she said no when she was first approached to play disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.At the time that she was first asked to play the part, she was quarantining because she had contracted COVID-19.'Listen, I was having a f**ing moment, OK?' she said with a laugh during a new interview withThe Hollywood Reporter. Uncanny resemblance:Amanda Seyfried (left) has revealed she said no when she was first approached to play disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (right)The Mean Girls star explained: 'I had COVID.

Kate McKinnon is one of six creative leaders in comedy honored for Variety‘s 2021 Power of Women. For more, click here.Kate McKinnon is exceedingly uninhibited, unselfconscious and brazen in her spot-on, wacky impressions of everyone from Robert Durst, Betsy DeVos and Justin Bieber to Dr.

place in our schools, yet [former Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos created a double standard that allows schools to ignore reports of harassment based on sex where similar reports based on race, national origin, or religion would require an appropriate response,” Ria Tabacco Mar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project. “That is devastating for survivors of sexual harassment and assault, who are overwhelmingly women and girls.“While the DeVos rule included important provisions to promote fairness of disciplinary procedures, it offered no justification for imposing a double standard,” Mar added.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order reversing Donald Trump’s ban on transgender service members. This is great news! I mean, kind of. These past four years have been particularly brutal for transgender Americans. The Trump Administration was a very hateful reign, and they reserved a targeted and open hostility to transgender people, from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos telling transgender students that they don’t deserve a place to pee or change their clothes for gym class to Trump announcing that transgender service members were no longer welcome, even after sacrificing more for and dedicating more to this country than his pathetic ass ever has.

There’s been more than a dozen White House resignations since Wednesday, when hundreds of violent, pro-Trump rioters vandalized the halls of Congress, threatened lawmakers and left five dead. Most of the resignees explicitly blamed their departures on the president’s refusing to accept his election loss and urging a mob to march to the Capitol during Wednesday’s raucous "Save America March." Those who’ve jumped ship just two weeks before the official handover on Jan.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn said former Trump Cabinet members Elaine Chao and Betsy DeVos, who resigned in protest of the Capitol riots, were "running away" from their responsibility to invoke the 25th Amendment.  In an interview with CNN, Clyburn said that invoking the 25th, where the vice president and a majority of Cabinet members can agree to relieve the president of his duties, was preferable to launching another round of impeachment proceedings in the final days of the Trump presidency.  Clyburn admitted that less than two weeks was likely not enough time to both impeach and remove President Trump.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has resigned Thursday, citing the riots that took place at the U.S. Capitol the prior day, Fox News has confirmed.

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted pretty much everything about our lives.That’s especially and devastatingly true for the education of America’s students.  Too many young students today are falling behind during their formative years of learning either due to unevenly applied or generally ineffective "hybrid" learning models, or due to their schools being closed altogether.  Parents are also increasingly more aware of what their students are — or are not — learning.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., took a parting shot at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in a tweet Sunday.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday pleaded with department staff involved in transitioning to the Biden administration to "be the resistance" against not doing what's right for students. Devos made the statement during a virtual Department of Education meeting to discuss transition plans as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office, as Politico first reported, citing a recording of the meeting obtained by the outlet.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday extended the suspension of student loan payments until the end of January. Borrowers haven’t had to make student loan payments since the Trump administration issued the relief in March, but the assistance was set to expire at the end of December.

President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are endangering the health and lives of millions of children and their families by demanding schools around the country reopen for in-person classes as the coronavirus pandemic continues. In addition, Trump and DeVos are using the pandemic as an excuse to intensify their war on public schools, public school teachers and teacher unions.They want the American people to believe that public schools do a lousy job and that teacher unions are only interested in fattening teachers’ paychecks and protecting incompetents.

hate group the Family Research Council, was tapped to co-chair a newly formed committee created after the employee-led Diversity and Inclusion and Employee Engagement Advisory councils were combined into one, Huffington Post reports.In her time with FRC, Perry made a number of statements against transgender people and transgender equality.Last year, she railed against “transgender supremacy” in a news conference, and claimed without evidence that children with autism can mistakenly believe they are transgender.“By ignoring underlying conditions, the demands of transgender supremacy marginalize our unique kids, especially those with autism and mental health diagnoses,” Perry said.

who married 26-year-old Cassidy in June, was highlighted in a Sept. 25 tweet by influencer and college hoops guru Rex Chapman that has amassed more than 31,000 likes, topped 5,000 retweets and resulted in a flurry of randy responses.“It’s like a squirrel stuck in a Crown Royal bag,” replied one shocked observer, while another likened the groin gaffe to “when you stuff a loaf of bread down your pants.” A different commenter pinpointed a simple cause and effect, suggesting, “His nuts literally whispered ‘I can’t breath’ and he heard them.”Yet another person wondered why no one in his high-profile family suggested pre-taping that he consider a wardrobe change, or perhaps a better tuck, writing, “I’m being serious.

The national debate over the inclusion of transgender athletes in competitive high school sports has been reignited in South Dakota after a group of Republican lawmakers objected to the state’s policy of permitting students to compete according to their gender identity.South Dakota’s Government Operations and Audit Committee assembled last week to urge the head of the South Dakota High School Activities Association, Dan Swartos, to investigate the legality of their trans-inclusive policy, the Associated Press reports.Republican State Rep.

Things got heated up between Joy Behar and Meghan McCain on Monday morning’s “The View”.

The View co-hosts came back from a week-long break with guns blazing during a day of Hot Topics. What started as a spirited discussion about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos‘ insistence that schools should reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic, turned into a shouting match between Meghan McCain and Joy Behar that Whoopi Goldberg had to break up not once, but twice. Even cutting to commercial didn’t slow them down.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerWith about a month to go until the start of the new school year, the battle lines are being drawn over whether US students will return to campuses or continue online schooling.The stakes being anted include federal and state funding, health and safety issues, and union rules and compliance. None of the potential winners in this war are clear to parents, many of them facing child care and transportation issues dependent on knowing what will happen.Meanwhile, new cases of coronavirus continue to rise.

Vice President Mike Pence, 61, was boarding Air Force 2 on the morning of June 23 when he accidentally tripped on one of the plane’s top stairs and fell forward on his hands and the filmed moment quickly went viral on social media. The political figure quickly got up and signaled he was okay with a thumbs up and wave to the crowd below after the misstep and all seemed well. The incident happened while he was getting read to head to Wisconsin to attend a roundtable discussion about school choice with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.