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Dear Colleague: Do what the Ed Department wants -- or else
The Education Department has used "guidance" letters to force states, colleges and districts to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 43 min read
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DeVos: Here's how to shut down the Education Department
After four years as Education secretary, Betsy DeVos thinks students will be better off if the department shuts down.
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 72 min read
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New Title IX LGBTQ+ rules set off 'race to the Supreme Court'
Schools are supposed to start implementing new federal rules on sex and gender discrimination, starting on Aug. 1, but red-state lawsuits...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 29, 20242 min read
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Death wish: Contempt for parents will destroy public ed
Public schools are trouble. Trust is low. Enrollment is falling. Parents are embracing new alternatives. Is transgender policy the hill...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'
"We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom," Martin Luther King Jr....
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 16, 20231 min read
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