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Latino groups push for former NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garcia as Education Secretary
By: Kery Murakami, Inside Higher Ed – December 8, 2020 More than 40 Hispanic civil rights and policy groups, including the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, are urging President-elect Biden to ... -
California Judge Blocks DeVos Rule Banning DACA Students From Stimulus
By: Wesley Whistle ~ Forbes ~ June 17, 2020 Another judge has blocked Education Secretary from enforcing her CARES Act guidance. Today, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granted ... -
Betsy DeVos Issues Emergency Rule That DACA And Foreign Students Cannot Receive Corona Virus Relief ...
By: Evan Gerstmann ~ Forbes ~ June 11, 2020 On March 27th, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES” Act). Congress intended CARES to, among other ... -
California community colleges sue U.S. for denying COVID-19 funds to undocumented students, others
By: NINA AGRAWAL, Staff writer, Los Angeles Times – May 13, 20206:15 PM The nation’s largest community college system is suing the federal government for denying coronavirus relief funds to more ... -
DeVos bars undocumented college students from emergency aid
By MICHAEL STRATFORD, POLITICO - APRIL 21, 2020 The new guidance prevents undocumented students from accessing the money, although the law includes no explicit restrictions on which students could receive the ...