CMD NEWS ABOUT Education

• Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Designed to Chill Campus Protests

  By David Armiak | February 12th, 2020 at 10:45 AM (CST)

  Modeled after a similar measure drafted by the right-wing Goldwater Institute, the bill imposes mandatory disciplinary sanctions on anyone under the jurisdiction of an institution "who engages in violent or other disorderly conduct that materially and substantially disrupts the free expression of others."

• Pence to Speak at Madison School Choice Event

  By David Armiak | January 28th, 2020 at 11:29 AM (CST)

  Vice President Mike Pence will speak at a capitol rally organized by groups linked to school privatization advocates like the Bradley Foundation and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Makes Unscheduled Appearance at ALEC Conference in Arizona to Promote Costly School Voucher Program

  By David Armiak | December 6th, 2019 at 1:46 PM (CST)

  Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos held a roundtable on "education freedom" with Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) yesterday at the ALEC States and Nation Policy Summit to promote her controversial and costly Education Freedom Scholarships proposal.

• Eli Broad Pays $100M to Move His Ed-Reform-Producing “Broad Center” from LA to Yale

  By ExposedByCMD Editors | December 6th, 2019 at 10:39 AM (CST)

  Eli Broad is one of the chief billionaires pushing education reform.

• Koch Invested $127.5 Million in Building Right-Wing Infrastructure in 2018

  By David Armiak | November 19th, 2019 at 2:52 PM (CST)

  Two-thirds of the money Charles Koch Foundation distributed in 2018 went to universities and colleges.