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President Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, has quite quickly polarized U.S. education from the water coolers of our schools to the conference rooms of EdTech companies. Tell us your one hope and one challenge you see with a DeVos confirmation. Check out more thought leadership regarding DeVos. Visit edcircuit.com!
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Just one week after the U.S. Department of Education banned ITT Technical Institute from admitting and enrolling new students; the for-profit giant officially announced that all school campuses would be shut down permanently. With 130 U.S. locations, the impact will be huge on their 45,000+ students.
Closed school loan discharges are expected to reach nearly $500 million – only a fifth of which will be covered by ITT’s collateral. The remaining four-fifths will be the responsibility of the taxpayers.In a high-profile speech Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged states to shift a healthy share of local and state correctional spending on nonviolent offenders to teachers—especially to raise teachers’ salaries at high-poverty schools and help stop the “school-to-prison pipeline.”