Biden’s coalition was ideologically diverse, from Bernie Sanders to Cindy McCain, but if he wants to vanquish Trumpism and build back better, his administration would need fewer elite lobbyists — and more people who look like they could fix a car.  American voters have spoken, and when the votes are counted they may have rejected
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Donald Trump’s desperate assault on the 2020 election includes new lawsuits in multiple states. The key lawyer for the Trump campaign’s lawsuit contesting votes in Georgia is Stefan Passantino, a former Trump administration White House lawyer. The Georgia case seems tiny — contesting at most 53 votes out of the 5 million cast in the
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  Pennsylvania Donald J. Trump for President v. Boockvar Complaint, 11-04-20, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania In re: Canvassing Observation Order denying motion, 11-03-20, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County Notice of Appeal to Commonwealth Court, 11-04-20, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar Motion Of Donald J. Trump For President,
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Betsy DeVos’s four-year effort to do the bidding of predatory for-profit colleges and trash rules to hold them accountable has had mixed results. Some awful schools seem to be thriving, while others have continued to collapse under the weight of their own bad behavior.  The next casualty may be an East Coast operation — including
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In recent months, we’ve highlighted on this site some for-profit and career colleges whose predatory abuses against students should disqualify them from eligibility for federal student grants and loans, yet the Donald Trump-Betsy DeVos education department keeps sending them millions of our tax dollars each month; Ashford University, Florida Career College, American Intercontinental/Colorado Tech, and
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Each year, the for-profit college lobby group CECU holds a November “CEO Summit,” a gathering where top industry executives take stock and address the challenges ahead. Notably, at the 2016 summit, the big speaker was former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who was both a close associate of CECU CEO Steve Gunderson, and an early supporter
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In August a Colorado state judge issued a blockbuster ruling that found systematic consumer protection abuses against students by the Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE), operator of career training schools including CollegeAmerica and Independence University. Now, based on that decision, CEHE’s accreditor, which already had placed the schools on probation, is demanding new
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In July, a Department of Education outside advisory committee, dominated by Republicans, rejected, by a 9-2 vote, an absurd and outrageous effort by Betsy DeVos aides to punish accreditor Higher Learning Commission (HLC) for its role in the meltdown of the Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH) chain of career colleges. Background: In late 2017, HLC
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