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opinion
Can Biden Cancel Student Loan Debt? Here’s Why It’s a ‘Major Question.’
Although the Biden administration has announced its student loan “forgiveness” program, the specifics of the plan’s implementation remain murky. However, what is crystal clear is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement just last year that “the president can’t do it.” “So that’s not even a discussion,” Pelosi told reporters, adding: “The president can only postpone, delay,… -
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Minnesota Proposes to Require Teachers to Use Critical Race Theory. Here’s What Parents Need to Know.
Parents are spreading “disinformation and hysteria around critical race theory,” a former teacher recently told NPR. “Teachers can barely afford the resources for their own curriculum [so] it’s laughable that they’d shell out money [to teach] a college course,” he said. College, of course, is the place where radical activists claim that critical race theory… -
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CRT Infects Military Academies, Medical Schools, Bill Jacobson Says
Critical race theory has marched its way through many of America’s educational institutions. Angry elementary school parents noticed during the pandemic that their kids’ teachers were more inclined to teach them that white people were evil than to teach them to read. Unfortunately, critical race theory—which views everything through the lenses of race and oppression—also… -
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Lessons From Biden’s Reckless Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Ploy
President Joe Biden’s new plan to “cancel” up to $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 annually is at once a dereliction of constitutional duty, a crass political gambit in the lead-up to a contested midterm election, and a morally perverse value judgment that lavishes the regime’s insular, well-heeled voting base… -
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Why Biden’s Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Will Make Inflation, Labor Shortage Worse
Since the pandemic started, the federal government has erased over $100 billion of student loan debt through a moratorium on loan repayments. President Joe Biden just extended that pause yet again—and added $10,000 to $20,000 per borrower in student loan cancellation along with limits on monthly repayments. This comes at a time when out-of-control inflation… -
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Biden Student Loan Amnesty a Windfall for DC Staffers
After announcing executive action to unilaterally and retroactively wipe away $300 billion in federal student debt, President Joe Biden looked over his shoulder to answer a question: Was this debt forgiveness fair to those who had sacrificed and saved to pay their way through college? Biden deflected. “Is it fair to people who, in fact,… -
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After Being Targeted by NBC News, Christian School Refuses to Back Down on Traditional Morality
Grace Christian School “fielded hundreds, probably thousands, of phone calls Thursday, Friday, over the weekend, with just some of the most outrageous things: People threatening to burn my house down, threatening to kill my family,” said Barry McKeen, school administrator and pastor of Grace Community Church of Valrico, Florida, which runs the school. The threats came in… -
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Biden’s ‘Forgiveness’ of Student Loan Debt Isn’t Just a Bailout. It’s a Slap in the Face.
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will launch a massive effort to “forgive” student loan debt for borrowers who still owe. This plan isn’t just a bailout for well-off college degree holders. It’s a slap in the face for hardworking Americans. It’s a slap in the face to the working-class father who dreamed of… -
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Why Biden’s Student Loan Bailout Is Unfair
In unilaterally “canceling” up to $20,000 in student loan debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 annually, the Biden administration on Wednesday put into motion a plan that will further inflate college costs, hinder economic growth, reward upper-income earners, and provide a major handout to woke institutions of higher education. The administration has stuck its… -
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‘Widen the Racial Wealth Gap’: Economist Breaks Down Effects of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness
An economics professor from Johns Hopkins University said during a Tuesday CNN appearance that President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt would make the racial wealth gap wider and make inflation worse. “The issue is debt cancellation might reduce the racial wealth gap between two rich doctors, a rich black doctor and rich… -
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New Jersey’s Largest School District Implements Mask Mandate for Entire School Year
The largest school district in New Jersey is going ahead with plans to implement a mask mandate during the 2022-2023 school year, according to district policy. Newark Public Schools in Essex County, New Jersey, is requiring students and educators to wear a mask on all school “locations and grounds” to combat COVID-19, according to the district policy. The school district… -
opinion
‘Forgiving’ Student Loan Debt Would Be Illegal, Raise Inflation
The Biden White House is reportedly considering “forgiving” $10,000 worth of student debt for some borrowers, a move that is likely illegal and definitely will increase inflation and force poor people to subsidize rich people. President Joe Biden is possibly considering subsidizing Americans earning less than $150,000 or $300,000 for married couples filing jointly—households in… -
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Civil Rights Groups Silent as DC Blocks 40% of Black Kids From Going to School
In the nation’s capital, almost half of the city’s black students ages 12 and over won’t be going back to school this fall. As a result, their already precarious educational situation is primed to suffer even more. Yet notable civil rights organizations are silent as 40% of the District of Columbia’s black students who are… -
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How Education Freedom Could Solve Our Crisis
Arizona is leading the way in education freedom. Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, just became the first governor to sign into law universal education saving accounts for every student in Arizona. Education saving accounts give parents access to tax dollars for their child’s education. Instead of tax dollars automatically going to public schools in a… -
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School Choice Advocate Corey DeAngelis Explains Why Freedom Is Winning Education Revolution
More parents than ever are taking their kids out of failing public schools and educating them in the way that benefits them most, whether that’s in a private or charter school, or through homeschooling. In the vanguard of the fight to achieve school choice across the nation is Corey DeAngelis. DeAngelis is a senior fellow… -
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Aren’t We Better Than Minneapolis Teachers Union’s Racist ‘Fire Whites First’ Policy?
A teachers union in Minneapolis recently struck a deal with the city’s school district that explicitly targets whites for firing. Under the new contract negotiated by the union, Minnesota-based outlet Alpha News reported Sunday, “If excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the [Minneapolis… -
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School Choice Ensures Equality of Opportunity, Empowers Families, Experts Say
Government-assigned schools have fostered a system of resegregation, one in which students are divided “racially, socially, and economically,” says Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. Roberts contends that educational freedom is the foremost civil rights issue of the 21st century, because school choice ensures equality of opportunity, and that in turn improves public schools on every measure, he said. “Because… -
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Public School Teachers Told to Indoctrinate Kids as Young as 3 in Radical LGBT Theory
State universities indoctrinate future teachers in controversial transgender, racial, and political theories—and instruct them to teach these principles to children beginning in preschool, a new report has found. “There’s a huge amount of liberal indoctrination going on,” the report’s author, Will Flanders, told “Washington Watch” guest host Joseph Backholm on Monday. “We found it across… -
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Female Athletes ‘Clear Losers’ in Biden’s Title IX Rule Change, Protesters Argue
Protesters rallied in the nation’s capital Thursday to challenge the Biden administration’s proposed new rules for enforcing Title IX’s anti-discrimination provisions that would change the definition of “sex” to include “gender identity.” A legal advocacy group called Stop Abusive and Violent Environments organized the rally at the Eisenhower Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX. Congress… -
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Biden Administration Extends Attack on the Free Market in New Rules on Student Debt
Instead of addressing the college debt crisis, the Biden administration has proposed new rules designed to punish for-profit colleges and stick taxpayers with billions of dollars in debt forgiveness. Taxpayers deserve accountability from the Department of Education, not carrots and sticks that interfere with a free marketplace for higher education. The rules, proposed last month,…