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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBetsy DeVos strikes out -- in court
http://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/21/devos-roll-back-obama-policies-1288782Judges have rebuffed DeVos attempts to change Obama policies dealing with everything from student loan forgiveness to mandatory arbitration agreements to racial disparities in special education programs.
As a result, the Education Department is being forced to carry out Obama-era policies that the Trump administration had been fighting to stop stymying DeVos efforts to quickly impose a conservative imprint on federal education policy over the past two years.
The latest legal blow came earlier this month, when a federal judge ruled DeVos illegally postponed a regulation requiring states to identify school districts where there are significant racial disparities among the students placed in special education programs. And last week, Education Department officials began implementing a sweeping package of Obama-era student loan policies after DeVos lost a lawsuit over delaying them last fall.
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MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)So many great statements here from the courts:
The federal judge striking down DeVos postponement of student loan regulations called her delays unlawful, procedurally invalid and arbitrary and capricious. The judge who rejected the delay of a special education rule faulted DeVos for failing to provide a reasoned explanation for stopping the policy.
"But, your Honor, there's all those 'funny-color kids' there, and kids gettin' food stamps - they cost money!"
Many of the policies at issue in the lawsuits have dealt with student loan forgiveness. The Obama administration began forgiving the debts of some students who it determined were defrauded by their college after the collapse of Corinthian Colleges, a massive for-profit chain of colleges.
"But, your Honor, how can you make any money if you're not trying to make money? Why should we forgive anybody that wanted to go to Trump University?"
In another case involving Obama-era regulations that call for more consumer disclosures to students of online colleges, a judge chastised the Trump administrations arguments in favor of delaying them.
"But your Honor, how can you expect these kids to read all of the little writing on those papers? They're supposed to be busy doing homework!"
Hey, don't forget, IQ45 only hires the best!!!!
WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)Ohiogal
(32,068 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)May she burn in Hell for all eternity.
WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)For most of these yahoos, "government" is something they've been fighting against or trying to get around all their miserable lives. Now they run the joint, but they have no more understanding of how to do that than a wombat can fly an airplane. Consequently, they think they can just issue fiats like they did when they ran their companies and let the minions worry about carrying out the orders. But there are procedures in place, and have been for a long time, designed to provide stability and dependability in the system. Dumbasses like DeVos and Trump don't know anything about that. Too bad for them, the people affected by their capricious edicts know how the system works, and they eventually stop the worst of it.
This in turn leads to uninformed yammering about the deep state or some other such nonsense by ignorant people who can't be bothered to learn anything.
WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)I've seen a more than few lifetime government folks enter the private sector and fail miserably.
They attempt to apply the methods of government administration to business and it just doesnt' work.
The only place I've seen where government and industry types switch back and forth is the US Treasury and Goldman Sachs. And it's bipartisian. Both Red and Blue seem to love to pull from Goldman Sachs and a number go from the Treasury to GS as well.
Ohiogal
(32,068 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Not home-schooled.
Not charter-schooled.
But publicly-schooled.
WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)eggplant
(3,913 posts)Until then, these victories are necessary but doesn't stop their ongoing assaults.