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Indiana about to basically eliminate Tenure.... and academic freedom.

Here's a good summary, focused on the requirement for "intellectual diversity," whatever the f*ck that means.

https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/202 ... diversity/

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I'm surprised ND and NE have an A

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More on that by the 19th:

https://19thnews.org/2024/03/liberty-un ... -violence/

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/so ... r-BB1jrBp0

South Carolina Supreme Court to decide if new private school voucher program is legal

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https://www.freep.com/story/sports/colu ... 727758007/

ok mitch you're based usually, but unfortunately inflation is a thing.

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Biden administration will soon roll out a sweeping new student loan forgiveness plan

Source: CNBC

Published Fri, Apr 5 2024 11:20 AM EDT

The Biden administration will soon roll out a sweeping new student loan forgiveness proposal that could impact millions of Americans.

Despite its smaller scope than President Joe Biden’s first education debt relief plan that the Supreme Court ultimately blocked, this new aid package could still forgive the debt for as many as 10 million Americans, according to one rough estimate by higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.

Biden is planning to provide details of his new debt forgiveness plan during a speech Monday in Madison, Wisconsin, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The president likely wants to start forgiving debt for many student borrowers ahead of the election in November.

Almost half of all voters, or 48%, say canceling student loan debt is an important issue to them in the 2024 presidential and congressional elections, a recent survey found.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/05/biden-a ... plan-.html

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Biden Clears $6 Billion in Debt for Closed Art School's Students

Source: Bloomberg

May 1, 2024 at 6:00 AM EDT

President Joe Biden is forgiving $6.1 billion in student loans for more than 300,000 attendees of the Art Institutes, a shuttered group of private colleges accused of fraud — the latest effort to deliver on his promise of easing student-loan debt ahead of November’s election.

The Art Institutes once operated 50 campuses across the US, but its doors closed abruptly in September 2023. The move will provide automatic relief for 317,0000 people who enrolled in the colleges between Jan. 1, 2004 and Oct. 16, 2017.

The Education Department said the schools and parent company Education Management Corp. “made pervasive and substantial misrepresentations to prospective students about postgraduation employment rates, salaries, and career services during that time.” Education Management Corp. sold the entity in 2017.

Biden’s action will automatically provide relief — even for those who have not yet applied for assistance. Forgiveness notices will be sent on Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -attendees

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Donald Trump Announces He Will Close Down The Department Of Education

Donald Trump has announced his support for abolishing the Department of Education if he were to become President of the United States again. In a Twitter space with Elon Musk, Trump stated that he needed someone like Elon to help him close down the Department of Education.

Abolishing the Department of Education has been a goal of Republicans for years, and is a key tenant of Project 2025, an agenda that Trump is actively trying to run away from. By abolishing the Department of Education, Trump would seek to have each state implement education standards for their respective students, which critics have said would cause inequitable outcomes across the country.

The language used by Republicans when talking about abolishing the Department of Education mimics the language they used in support of overturning Roe v. Wade. There, the Republican Party said that it should be up to each individual state how it deals with abortion rights. Now, they are repeating this same line when it comes to education standards.

https://meidasnews.com/news/donald-trum ... -education

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More on that by The Nation:

https://www.thenation.com/article/polit ... editation/ (fixed link)

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Despite Trump’s Win, School Vouchers Were Again Rejected by Majorities of Voters
by Eli Hager and Jeremy Schwartz
November 9, 2024

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(ProPublica) In 2018, Arizona voters overwhelmingly rejected school vouchers. On the ballot that year was a measure that would have allowed all parents — even the wealthiest ones — to receive taxpayer money to send their kids to private, typically religious schools.

Arizonans voted no, and it wasn’t close. Even in a right-leaning state, with powerful Republican leaders supporting the initiative, the vote against it was 65% to 35%.

Coming into this week’s election, Donald Trump and Republicans had hoped to reverse that sort of popular opposition to “school choice” with new voucher ballot measures in several states.

But despite Trump’s big win in the presidential race, vouchers were again soundly rejected by significant majorities of Americans. In Kentucky, a ballot initiative that would have allowed public money to go toward private schooling was defeated roughly 65% to 35% — the same margin as in Arizona in 2018 and the inverse of the margin by which Trump won Kentucky. In Nebraska, nearly all 93 counties voted to repeal an existing voucher program; even its reddest county, where 95% of voters supported Trump, said no to vouchers. And in Colorado, voters defeated an effort to add a “right to school choice” to the state constitution, language that might have allowed parents to send their kids to private schools on the public dime.

Expansions of school vouchers, despite backing from wealthy conservatives, have never won when put to voters. Instead, they lose by margins not often seen in such a polarized country.

Read more here: https://www.propublica.org/article/sch ... on-trump

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