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    <title>WH budget office, not DeVos, pushed for proposed Special Olympics cuts, official says</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T01:19:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two education officials, one current and one former, say they believe the insistence from OMB was borne out of ideological opposition to government funding for a private organization. The officials did not believe the concern was primarily fiscal despite the fact that DeVos's initial defense before Congress emphasized the need to make hard-nosed decisions to rein in spending.
"I also acknowledge that it's easier to keep spending, to keep saying yes, and to keep saddling tomorrow's generations with today's growing debts," DeVos said in her testimony Tuesday.
The education official added that the department and secretary had considered it a victory that it had maintained level funding for larger programs, particularly Title I programs for schools serving large amounts of students from poor families, and programs for students with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. But officials tried unsuccessfully to convince OMB that cutting the relatively small amount from the Special Olympics would be politically unpalatable. Those officials had been worried since the first year of the administration about how DeVos would defend cuts to the popular program.
A White House aide said the back and forth between the agency and the White House's budget office is fairly typical. "OMB can be pretty ruthless under Mick and Russ," said the White House aide, referring to Russ Vought, Mulvaney's deputy and the acting director of OMB.]]></description>
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    <title>Betsy DeVos defends Special Olympics budget cuts: 'We had to make some difficult decisions'</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-27T02:09:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Betsy DeVos defended budget cuts to programs including the Special Olympics on Tuesday.

Appearing before a House subcommittee Tuesday to review the department's proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, DeVos said, "We had to make some difficult decisions."

DeVos's remarks came in response to questions from Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who pressed her on the amount of kids the budget cut would impact.

"I don't know the number of kids," DeVos said before Pocan answered that 272,000 kids would be impacted.

"I think Special Olympics is an awesome organization, one that is well supported by the philanthropic sector as well," DeVos said.

The budget proposed by President Trump and supported by DeVos calls for nearly $18 million in cuts to the Special Olympics.]]></description>
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    <title>Betsy DeVos: Deep cuts to Special Olympics, student programs are warranted</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-26T21:00:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday defended deep cuts to programs meant to help students and others, including eliminating $18 million to support Special Olympics, while urging Congress to spend millions more on charter schools.

"We are not doing our children any favors when we borrow from their future in order to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results," DeVos said in prepared testimony before a House subcommittee considering the Department of Education's budget request for the next fiscal year.

It was the first time that DeVos, a wealthy former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and school choice advocate, had been called before a Democratic-led panel in the U.S. House to explain President Donald Trump's spending priorities.

While proposing to add $60 million more to charter school funding and create a tax credit for individual and companies that donate to scholarships for private schools, DeVos' budget proposal would still cut more than $7 billion from the Education Department, about 10 percent of its current budget. President Trump proposed a $4.7 trillion overall budget this month with an annual deficit expected to run about $1 trillion.

It calls for eliminating billions in grants to improve student achievement by reducing class sizes and funding professional development for teachers as well as cutting funds dedicated to increasing the use of technology in schools and improving school conditions. In many cases, DeVos said the purpose of the grants has been found to be redundant or ineffective.

In the case of the $17.6 million cut to help fund the Special Olympics, a program designed to help children and adults with disabilities, DeVos suggested it is better supported by philanthropy and added, "We had to make some difficult decisions with this budget."]]></description>
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    <title>Betsy DeVos: Churches Can Get Taxpayer Money to Provide Services to Schools</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-12T22:44:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, always looking for new ways to hurt public education in the country, has decided the separation between church and state needs to go. Her office just announced that it will stop getting in the way of religious groups providing taxpayer-funded resources to public and private schools.

It’s the result, her office said, of the Supreme Court’s Trinity Lutheran decision which said it’s okay for religious groups to receive taxpayer money for ostensibly secular purposes. ]]></description>
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    <title>Corinthian Fined $30 Million for Inflating Job Figures - Bloomberg Business</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-15T02:45:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The U.S. Education Department fined Corinthian Colleges Inc., the for-profit education chain, $30 million for misrepresenting job-placement rates to current and prospective students.
Corinthian’s Heald College misstated 947 placement rates that inflated the employment prospects of graduates, the agency said.
Heald, a chain of business schools, paid temporary agencies to hire its graduates to work at jobs on its own campuses for as little as two days and counted them as employed, the department said. It also counted placements outside students’ field of study, such as an accounting graduate working at a Taco Bell restaurant, according to the agency.
“This should be a wake-up call for consumers across the country about the abuses that can exist within the for-profit college sector,” U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement. “We will continue to hold the career college industry accountable and demand reform for the good of students and taxpayers.”
Corinthian, owner of the Everest, Heald and WyoTech for-profit schools, collapsed last summer after the Education Department curtailed its access to federal student aid. The company agreed to sell half of its 107 campuses to Education Credit Management Corp. in November amid allegations that it falsified grades, attendance and job-placement rates.]]></description>
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    <title>At War Blog: Bill Addresses Loophole in Financing of Veterans' Education</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-17T02:04:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lawmakers introduced bills in both chambers Thursday intended to close a loophole that enables for-profit schools to take advantage of G.I. Bill aid to rake in federal money.

Two of the sponsors — Senator Tom R. Carper, Democrat of Delaware, and Representative Jackie Speier, Democrat of California and a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — told reporters the law would focus on for-profit schools that accept federal funds to educate veterans but sometimes leave them unprepared to enter the civilian workforce.

“It is clear that the business model of some of these for-profit colleges is to become totally reliant on federal funds, making billions in the process and spending a paltry amount on actually educating the students they spend billions to entice,” Ms. Speier said.

In 1998, Congress instituted the so-called “90-10 rule,” requiring that for every nine dollars of tuition covered by federal aid, there should be at least one dollar coming from private funds.

The law would close a loophole that counts military education benefits differently from Department of Education aid, which allowed schools to circumvent the rule by designating veterans’ education benefits as if the money were not paid by the federal government.]]></description>
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    <title>Washington State U. Fined $82,500 for Violating Campus-Safety Rules - Legal - The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Education said on Friday that it would fine Washington State University $82,500 for failing to disclose two sexual assaults in 2007 and for maintaining insufficient campus-safety policies.

The university's three violations of the main federal law on campus-crime reporting, the Clery Act, endangered Washington State students and employees who rely on campus-crime statistics and statements, a federal education official wrote in a letter to the college's president, Elson S. Floyd.

The university vehemently disagrees with the department's finding and will appeal the fine, said a Washington State spokesman, Darin Watkins.

In March, Virginia Tech was fined less, $55,000, for failing to quickly warn students in 2007 about a gunman who ended up killing 33 people. The largest Clery Act fine, $350,000, was imposed on Eastern Michigan University three years ago for failing to alert the campus that a student had been murdered.

The Washington State fine stems from the Education Department's decision to randomly review dozens of colleges as part of an effort to monitor Clery Act compliance. Three universities, including Washington State, were found to have committed violations during 2007.]]></description>
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    <title>BBC News - Virginia Tech fined over 2007 campus shooting response</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The US government has fined Virginia Tech university $55,000 (£34,413) for failing promptly to warn students at the start of a 2007 shooting massacre.

The education department said the school broke federal law when it waited two hours after the first killings to warn students of a gunman on campus.

The university in Blacksburg, Virginia, said it would appeal against the fine.

In April 2007, 32 were killed when a student went on a two-and-a-half-hour rampage before killing himself.

"Because Virginia Tech failed to notify its students and staff of the initial shootings on a timely basis, thousands continued to travel on campus, without warning," the department wrote in a letter announcing the fine.]]></description>
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    <title>Incentives Offered to Raise College Graduation Rates - NYTimes.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In what amounts to a “Race to the Top” for higher education, the Obama administration is offering competitive grants and a new “tool kit” to help states increase their college completion rates.

During a news briefing Monday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said the program, to be formally announced Tuesday by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., would include only incentives — no “sticks” — for reforms aimed at helping the administration meet its goal of adding eight million college graduates by 2020.

According to Mr. Duncan, the campaign will include a new $20 million Comprehensive Grant Program for states that carry out plans intended to increase their graduation rates.

In addition, as part of its 2012 budget, the administration has proposed the $123 million “First in the World” initiative for programs that hold down tuition, increase completion rates and move students through college faster. Last, the $50 million College Completion Incentive Grants would reward states and schools for reforms that produce more college graduates. ]]></description>
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