At his CEO Business Town Hall Tuesday, President Donald Trump returned to his campaign promise to end the highly unpopular Common Core standards and once again make education policy the domain of local governments.
President Trump’s “America First” budget targets a number of controversial California programs and notorious agencies for heavy cuts or outright elimination—while increasing funding for border security and detention of criminal aliens.
Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-LA) is joining seven other House members as a co-sponsor of a bill that would terminate the federal education department.
President Donald Trump visited St. Andrew Catholic School in Pine Hills, Florida, on Friday to draw attention to his plan to open up education opportunities to every child with school choice.
In a panel discussing the follies of government at CPAC, Charlie Kirk advocated ousting Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) for voting against Betsy DeVos’ nomination.
Donald Trump’s education secretary opposed changing President Barack Obama’s pro-transgender policy, according to a report in the New York Times, even though Obama’s rules would have exposed the nation’s single-sex institutions and civic groups to crippling lawsuits by gay advocacy
Heritage Foundation Research Associate Mary Clare Reim spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday about the Betsy DeVos confirmation for Education Department secretary and what it means for education going forward.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is introducing legislation that would abolish the federal education department.
The Republican senator who introduced new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee told reporters shortly after the Senate’s Tuesday vote to confirm DeVos that her taking over federal education programs is long overdue.
Hollywood A-listers rushed to social media Tuesday to bash Betsy DeVos and Republican lawmakers after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm her nomination as education secretary.
Vice President Mike Pence cast an historic deciding vote Tuesday to confirm Betsy DeVos as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
With debate on Betsy DeVos’ nomination ended, President Donald Trump’s pick for the nation’s top education post will likely require the rare situation of a sitting vice president to trek over to the Senate to break a 50-50 tie in order to get her over the finish line.
While the battle rages on in the Senate over the nomination of Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary, there is opposition from two Republican senators, Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Collins has a 100 percent rating and Murkowski an 89 percent rating from the National Education Association. There is also opposition by another billionaire in the school choice movement, Eli Broad, who has given money to both Democrats and Republicans.
Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Capitol Hill for a potential tie-breaking vote on President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos.
Senate Republicans are working to secure the nomination for education department secretary for Betsy DeVos after two Republican senators said they could not support her.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the federal education department was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee along party lines, 12-11.
Grassroots activists who have been battling against federal control of education in the states say the list of staffers already working for the Trump administration’s education department looks much like a cross between what a “President” Jeb Bush would have ordered and what President Barack Obama left behind on his way out.
An editorial from The Boston Globe argues that the intense reaction to Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Secretary of Education, reveals “how ideological and unmoored” the debate on campus rape culture has become.
Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), says he is delaying the initial vote on Besty DeVos, nominee for secretary of education.
The president of Liberty University and an early supporter of Donald J. Trump for president told Breitbart News Thursday that he is more pleased with Trump now than when the son of Evangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr. endorsed Trump 12 months ago.
Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic nominee for vice president and former Connecticut senator, told Breitbart News he testified in favor of Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, because she cares about helping schoolchildren, not politics.
Wednesday on Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the Trump transition “aided and abetted by Senate Republicans” were attempting to “jam through nominees” in his “swamp cabinet full of bankers and billionaires.” Schumer said “In these
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” incoming aide to President-elect Donald Trump’s Kellyanne Conway said Democrats are using the confirmation hearings to “embarrass and humiliate” Trump’s cabinet nominees. Conway said, “This idea of humiliating and trying to embarrass qualified
President-elect Donald Trump is already preparing for his re-election campaign in 2020 with a new campaign slogan.
While being questioned during confirmation hearings, Donald Trump’s Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos said the danger poised by “potential grizzlies” justifies keeping guns in schools.
Senate Democrats on the chamber’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee pressed Betsy DeVos during her confirmation hearing Tuesday evening with questions about her financial contributions, her knowledge of federal education laws, and her intentions toward the nation’s public schools.
U.S. Department of Education nominee Betsy DeVos will give her opening statement to Senate HELP Committee members Tuesday afternoon, but she is not expected to mention the Common Core standards reform in that statement.
Former House Speaker John Boehner is endorsing Betsy DeVos as the next federal education department secretary.
Progressive groups want Senators on the education committee to recuse themselves if they got campaign contributions from Betsy DeVos, the nominee for the education department post.
An education watch coalition of grassroots parents and other citizens representing 27 states is letting the Senate know its concerns about education department secretary nominee Betsy DeVos.
A former economic advisor to both the George H.W. and George W. Bush administrations is reportedly a top candidate for the post of deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, reports Education Week.
Former First Lady Barbara Bush says she is “enthusiastically endorsing Betsy DeVos to be our next secretary of education.”
Feminists are calling on Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick for Education Secretary, to protect a discredited and unjust system.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) is postponing the confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the federal Education Department.
DeVos was originally supposed to have her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 10 a.m. However, Spicer says the hearing has been rescheduled for next week.
A press release from America Rising Squared, the research arm of PAC America Rising, is announcing a letter signed by 20 governors in support of Betsy DeVos as the next head of the federal department of education.
The former Massachusetts governor also observes that “a lot of money is at stake” in the debate over DeVos, whose confirmation hearing is scheduled for January 11.
Capitol Hill is watching Sen. Cory A. Booker (D-NJ) as he twists and turns to handle the nomination of Elizabeth “Betsy” DeVos to lead President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Department of Education.
The executive director and the senior fellow at Boston-based think tank Pioneer Institute warn Trump federal Education Department pick Betsy DeVos “to understand that the best school innovation comes from states, localities, and parents,” not the federal government.
The Senate is set to hold confirmation hearings for nominees to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet Jan. 10, with the goal of having at least Rex Tillerson for State Department and retired Marine Gen. James N. “Mad Dog” Mattis at Pentagon in place upon the start of the new administration.
