Comprehensive research reveals a systematic corruption pattern in Hurricane Katrina’s education system transformation. Academic studies and journalistic investigations document how disaster was strategically used to rapidly privatize New Orleans public schools. Before Katrina, the school …
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Vice President Mike Pence cast a historic tie-breaking vote on February 7, 2017, to confirm Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary—the first time in American history that a vice president’s tie-breaking power was used to confirm a Cabinet nominee. The Senate vote split exactly 50-50, with two …
During Betsy DeVos’s confirmation hearing on January 17, 2017, Democrats raised urgent concerns about her financial investments in student debt collection companies—conflicts of interest that remained unreviewed because Republicans rushed the hearing before the Office of Government Ethics …