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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Infuriated Some With Her Comments About Black Colleges
BI - Inside Higher Ed ^ | 2-27-2017 | Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed

Posted on 02/28/2017 8:28:28 AM PST by blam

Monday evening, the Education Department issued a statement from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that has infuriated many advocates for historically black colleges. The statement comes when many leaders of black colleges are in Washington for meetings at the White House and with Republican Congressional leaders, who have been wooing black colleges and pledging to help them.

Most of the statement is innocuous. She praises black colleges. In perhaps a sign not to expect too much money from the Trump administration, she says, "[r]ather than focus solely on funding, we must be willing to make the tangible, structural reforms that will allow students to reach their full potential." And she notes that black colleges were created when "there were too many students in America who did not have equal access to education."

But DeVos goes on to link black colleges to the issue of school choice -- a cause for which she is an advocate. "HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice," she said. "They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality. Their success has shown that more options help students flourish."

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KEYWORDS: blacks; devos; education; hbc; highereducation; trump
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Infuriated Some With Her Comments About Black Colleges. The Education Department issued a statement from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that has infuriated many advocates for historically black colleges. The statement comes when many leaders


21 posted on 02/28/2017 8:53:05 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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"Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Infuriated Some With Her Comments About Black Colleges"

Yes, that is true. I heard that Herman Some was REALLY pist off.

22 posted on 02/28/2017 8:53:30 AM PST by Oatka
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To: stylin19a

You mean BLACK Rachel Dolezal?


23 posted on 02/28/2017 8:53:47 AM PST by Twinkie (The MSM is DEAD. - John 3:16)
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To: blam

Sorry Betsy - you’re white.

You and your white privilege are prohibited from addressing a black, brown, red, or yellow institution of higher learning.

Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of political correctness.


24 posted on 02/28/2017 8:55:40 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: blam
Just for perspective, the affirmative action set asides used on the UC system in the early 70's were a total disaster. The University of California set aside 5% for affirmative action recruiting (excluding 5% of well qualified candidates who weren't selected on the basis of a racial preference). Only 2% of that 5% recruited were successful to graduation day. The students were recruited into a highly competitive environment where they were academically overwhelmed. Had they gone to a less academically voracious environment, they might have survived long enough to finish a degree. There is value is having institutions that are academic hotbeds and others that are slower paced. The fiction that we are all created equal is a crock. We need a little of both kinds to provide people an opportunity to succeed.
25 posted on 02/28/2017 8:58:17 AM PST by Myrddin
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They are little more than Hate Whitey factories where Blacks have their heads filled with useless crap and lies. Look it up Don’t take my word. Example North Carolina Central IMMEDIATELY protested the “un”fair treatment of the Duke LaCrosse Team demanding its members be prosecuted. Grambling has graduated so few students they omit that category in reports on Southeastern colleges Grambling gave us that affirmative action fake Charles BLOW of the NYT. It goes on.


26 posted on 02/28/2017 9:02:00 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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They are little more than Hate Whitey factories where Blacks have their heads filled with useless crap and lies. Look it up Don’t take my word. Example North Carolina Central IMMEDIATELY protested the “un”fair treatment of the Duke LaCrosse Team demanding its members be prosecuted. Grambling has graduated so few students they omit that category in reports on Southeastern colleges Grambling gave us that affirmative action fake Charles BLOW of the NYT. It goes on.


27 posted on 02/28/2017 9:02:00 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: blam

What did she say that was bad? I don’t see it...................


28 posted on 02/28/2017 9:03:48 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: montag813
There are non-black students at these schools these days. Decades ago I remember researching law schools and saw the average (or median, I forget which) LSAT score for Texas Southern was something like 11 on a 48 point scale.

In the mission statement was wording something along the lines of "Texas Southern provides a law school education for those who would otherwise not have one." Cleverly worded. While the school at the time was mostly black, there was a statistically significant number of whites there too, who presumably would be unable to otherwise receive a law school education.
29 posted on 02/28/2017 9:06:18 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Nowadays TOO MANY people have access to college which is why they’ve had to dumb it down.


30 posted on 02/28/2017 9:09:40 AM PST by Maverick68
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And she notes that black colleges were created when “there were too many students in America who did not have equal access to education.”

And this was something that infuriated people?

What the hell do they think these colleges were made for?


31 posted on 02/28/2017 9:12:12 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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There are non-black students at these schools these days.


Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo is an example. It is the “historically black” public university for Missouri. I’ve been told that it is nearly all black in the daytime, but mainly white for evening classes. The reason? Jeff City is the capital of Missouri and has lots of government employees who can advance on the pay-scale ladder by furthering their education. So state employees attend Lincoln after work hours.


32 posted on 02/28/2017 9:26:52 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: montag813
Trump to sign executive order on historically black colleges and universities
33 posted on 02/28/2017 9:28:35 AM PST by blam
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To: blam
Nothing DeVos said is inaccurate, this is just more of the grievance industry grieving; hey it pays well, or used to.
34 posted on 02/28/2017 9:33:25 AM PST by Pietro
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To: montag813

Because they are admitting students of other races in order to stay open.


35 posted on 02/28/2017 9:56:43 AM PST by tbw2
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To: jmaroneps37

Hate to say it, but all Common Core is “hate whitey (straight Christians)”.

Even your “white” public school is a “programming” (with agitprop) center.
It just is ideological subversion so embedded in the curricula parents are ignorant of it until their children are too old with all the “correct” embedded worldview of the reprobate. “Large groups of children are unsupervised children and today most children are exposed to vile child abuse and neglect and “good” children will be given their ideas which will corrupt them. Children have to be protected from reprobates (atheists, sodomites—most “teachers”).

Parents can’t figure out how their children turned out so irrational and ignorant which is the way the “publik” schools intended all along (to trap children and make them hate reading the Great Books and hate God (Christianity).......it is all designed.

(Homeschool—educate your own children as God designed and as the USA did for over 150 years. Lincoln was “schooled” only for a few months (thank goodness) of his entire life. (Group “think” institutional “care” is no think).


36 posted on 02/28/2017 9:58:10 AM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Myrddin

I’ve read about the historically black college leaders who decry affirmative action, that they’d have graduated a science major whereas the black students come out with useless black history degrees from big name colleges instead.


37 posted on 02/28/2017 9:58:42 AM PST by tbw2
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To: Red Badger

You don’t have the Special Liberal Decoder Ring.


38 posted on 02/28/2017 10:06:43 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Would love to know their bar passing rates.


39 posted on 02/28/2017 10:07:40 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: montag813

No because they are colleges that began often in the south because whites only universities excluded people. The colleges are mostly Black because of jistory


40 posted on 02/28/2017 10:11:20 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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