Betsy DeVos

It's not just for Brett Kavanaugh.

Betsy DeVos can issue new rules, but it’s no guarantee that she can change the cultural climate.

DeVos seeks to remove administrative approval for religious schools’ waiver from the 1972 gender parity law.

The Education department issues a draft of rules to replace Obama’s “Dear Colleague” letters on sexual assault.

Obama officials wanted to shut down for-profit colleges altogether. They almost did.

Nearly a year since DeVos rescinded the controversial campus rape regulation, nothing’s changed.

It’s mean and unreasonable, but maybe the base likes it

A 12-year-old girl in Baltimore County, Maryland, complained to her teachers, her guidance counselor, and her middle school principal when a boy wouldn't stop harassing her. He leered at her in class, and, she says, touched her out on the playground in a way state law classifies as a sexual…

It’s not often that the head of a federal agency asks Congress for less money than the agency received the year before. So infrequent is it that one might reasonably assume the circumstance would generate some hint of intellectual curiosity on the part of reporters and politicos. If an agency head…

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Mike Warren and host Charlie Sykes discuss President Trump's wild weekend, the PA-18 special election, and Betsy DeVos's painful '60 Minutes' interview.

In Secretary Betsy DeVos’s latest deregulatory step, the Department of Education has said it will not investigate or take action on complaints from transgender students regarding the open use of restrooms in public schools.

One year and a day after Betsy DeVos was confirmed as secretary of education, she sat in her seventh-floor office, a vast and soulless space in one of the unloveliest buildings in Washington, and reflected upon the process that brought her there.

On January 17, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told us what she’s really up to. She was the keynote speaker at the American Enterprise Institute conference “Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned.” There she gave a tough-but-fair appraisal of the costly failed federal attempts at education…

A nationwide network of Catholic prep schools offered exclusively to low-income families is warning that the House version of tax reform contains provisions that could devastate their funding model, and could spell the end of an educational program that has graduated tens of thousands of low-income…

The Sacramento statehouse, according to conventional wisdom, is a bellwether for social policies that soon sweep the nation. This week, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the legislature's attempt to give Obama-era Title IX guidance the force of law that it never had nationally.

Just as she told the public she would, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded the Obama administration’s controversial guidance on Title IX Friday. A new set of guidelines—in the form of an interim “Q&A on Campus Sexual Misconduct”—will take its place until replacement rules receive full notice…

American liberals think of themselves as champions of the excluded and ill-treated, friends of the little guy persecuted by the system. Their instinctive sympathy for the disadvantaged and overlooked is evidence of a charitable worldview and a peculiar inheritance of Christian humanism. For a…

Give the Trump Education Department credit for rescinding the Obama Ed’s “Dear Colleague” letter of 2011 and opening a discussion about the meaning of Title IX. Under that law, “No person shall . . . on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected…

Eight months into the Trump administration, a long-awaited campaign to unwind Obama’s legacy on Title IX appears to have begun in earnest. Early Thursday afternoon in a speech at George Mason University, Betsy DeVos condemned the Obama administration’s 2011 “Dear Colleague Letter,” that has had an…

Title IX is a Nixon-era federal law barring sex discrimination in schools. Under the Obama administration, it became a mandate for colleges to adjudicate claims of sexual misconduct with an imbalanced extrajudicial standard. The Department of Education’s infamous “Dear Colleague Letter” of April…

There’s a lot riding on a Title IX summit that’s happening at the Department of Education today. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will meet privately with sexual assault victims and advocates who want her to maintain the campus sexual assault provisions decreed by the Obama administration (and plan…

Save for a few peaceful patches in the commencement program—when the concert chorale sang, when the brass band played, when the the charismatic chaplain called graduates and guests to prayer—students at the historically black Bethune-Cookman University's commencement ceremony on Wednesday clamored…

Dismantling Obama-era over-regulation is supposed to be a top priority of the Trump administration. And few regulations have caused as much consternation as Obama's reinterpretation of Title IX. Alas, no amount of subsequent policy can easily disentangle this overreach from campus life.

In the contemporary campus climate, that lovely stretch from the latter half of April to the first blush of May is also controversial commencement speaker season. The most contested, in a year in which her raked-over confirmation proceedings garnered outsize news coverage, will probably be Betsy…

The bathroom wars wage on. Repealing the Obama-era edict that hardened the conflict, as President Trump did Wednesday, changes little in practice.

At 10:30 Thursday morning, Jeff Sessions will officially be sworn in as attorney general of the United States. On a near party-line vote, 52 to 47, the Senate confirmed one of its own Wednesday night for the job of the nation's top law enforcement officer. Sessions was one of Donald Trump's…

Freshly-confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos greeted an anxious-seeming assembly of her staff at the Education Department headquarters with reassuring remarks Wednesday afternoon. On an unseasonably warm day in Washington, the assembly hall was hot and stuffy, only more uncomfortable as…

President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, won Senate confirmation Tuesday afternoon, but just barely. She lost two of the Republican majority's 52 votes, with Senate education committee members Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska having announced they would…

Activists on the left have opposed the confirmation of education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos for a host of reasons, some more poorly considered than others. DeVos has spent decades as an activist and philanthropist for school choice, and with the Democratic establishment's love for teachers…

A procedural vote along party lines early Friday morning decided to close contentious debate in the Senate over the confirmation of Betsy DeVos, which is now expected to fall to a 50-50 tie broken by Vice President Pence.

The opponents of Donald Trump's pick to be secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, are animated in large part by anger at her support for school voucher programs. And in their efforts to undermine vouchers, they've gone far afield—to Chile, to be exact, where an expansive school choice system was…

Two GOP senators said Wednesday they would vote no on the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be secretary of education, potentially dragging the vice president into a tie-break scenario to push through one of President Donald Trump's most controversial cabinet selections.

Eight hundred people showed up for the meeting. So many that it was necessary to use the school gymnasium instead of the more intimate and comfortable auditorium, as planned.

Democrats on the Senate's education panel toed the line Tuesday morning, bringing along a fighting spirit with their votes against Betsy DeVos's nomination to lead the Department of Education. As foretold, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee recommended her confirmation to…

Tuesday's Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee vote on Education secretary-designate Betsy "Cruella" DeVos will most assuredly fall along party lines. With a Republican majority weighing in her favor, every remaining Democrat, according to Minnesota senator Al Franken, (and every…

Not a one Democratic Senator will vote to confirm Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos. Or so Minnesota senator Al Franken told Rachel Maddow Thursday night.

The opponents of Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, are animated in large part by anger at her support for school voucher programs. And in their efforts to undermine vouchers, they've gone far afield—to Chile, to be exact, where an expansive school choice system was…

Eight hundred people showed up for the meeting. So many that it was necessary to use the school gymnasium instead of the more intimate and comfortable auditorium, as planned.

Old habits die hard. And using the Department of Education to dispense federal mandates in service to an overarching agenda has been habitual practice these past eight years.

At her confirmation hearing Tuesday, Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos fought back against allegations that her school reform efforts in Detroit were a failure.

At a heated three-and-half-hour confirmation hearing Tuesday evening, Senate Democrats predictably pressed the president-elect's Education Secretary-designate. Betsy DeVos, a major Republican donor and school choice advocate, has proven one of his more controversial appointees: Her decades of…

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush was quick to praise the president-elect's choice of Betsy DeVos for Education secretary when the transition team announced her nomination in November. And on Tuesday, the day of her confirmation hearing, he expounded his support for DeVos in USA Today, praising her…

Democratic senator Patty Murray, once called the "mom in tennis shoes" before she entered politics, is faced with a "profiles in courage" moment this week. She is the ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which holds a hearing Tuesday on the nomination of Betsy…

In the middle of a 3,500-word Newsweek profile of Betsy DeVos—the philanthropist and education reform crusader Donald Trump has nominated for education secretary—The Scrapbook spotted this trenchant observation:

In the middle of a 3,500-word Newsweek profile of Betsy DeVos—the philanthropist and education reform crusader Donald Trump has nominated for education secretary—The Scrapbook spotted this trenchant observation:

Democrats critical of Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's choice for education secretary, find plenty of reasons to pillory the school-choice advocate and Republican donor. Plans to improve equal opportunity in public education—growing public charter schools and voucher programs, and testing district…

President-elect Trump's pick for education secretary just had her nomination hearings delayed a week, but the media aren't wasting any time lining up breathless attacks on Betsy DeVos. At Politico, there's this astonishing headline: "DeVos' donations spark questions about her stance on campus…

Democratic criticism of Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education, holds a dark lesson for us all: Sometimes it's just not worth it to tell the truth. In a letter released Thursday, six members of Senate's Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee called into question…

The day following his stunning electoral victory, Present-elect Donald Trump announced his plan for his first 100 days in office. Trump outlined a few ambitious objectives in his School Choice and Education Opportunity Act that could reshape America's educational landscape. Trump's education plan: