I n January 2020, just weeks before the NBA shut down and Costco shelves emptied and Tom Hanks got sick, Joy Corbitt’s only brother died in his mid-forties with symptoms of Covid. Which meant, from the pandemic’s earliest days, Joy was taking no chances. She’d heard that Black and brown …
Read More »Trump Signs Executive Order to 'Eliminate' Education Department
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday intended to “eliminate” the Department of Education, effectively reducing the department to its most bare-bone functions. He did so at a White House ceremony, surrounded by children sitting at school desks. “My administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the …
Read More »White House Ices Order to Dismantle Education Department … For Now
Parents, students, and teachers beware. President Donald Trump‘s scorched earth campaign against federal agencies could be headed to the Department of Education, via a proposed executive order that would dismantle the department. According to a draft obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the president was expected to instruct newly confirmed …
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