Betsy DeVos
Feud with ex-president leads to lawsuit, alleged threats of violence at Calvin University
By Bob Smietana — April 15, 2024
(RNS) — The prominent evangelical school hired a former business executive as president in hopes of turning around years of decline. But his tenure ended abruptly after the board alleged he'd sent inappropriate messages to a woman he was not married to.
Activists prepare for yearlong battle over Nebraska private school funding law
By Margery A. Beck — September 1, 2023
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — If the law is repealed, Nebraska would join North Dakota as the only states not offering some type of public payment for private school tuition.
The King’s College makes deep cuts to faculty, cancels fall classes
By Meagan Saliashvili — July 17, 2023
NEW YORK (RNS) — Operating on thin margins and depending on deep-pocketed conservative Christian donors, the school has been in turmoil since a partnership with a Canadian education investment company, Primacorp Ventures, failed to change its fortunes.
Reopening schools for all the wrong reasons
By Jim Wallis — August 3, 2020
(RNS) — Just like he turned mask-wearing into a political litmus test, Donald Trump is using our children’s futures as a political tactic to try to put the pandemic behind us, get the economy going again and help him win reelection.
Behind Trump’s push to reopen schools, a gift for Bible-based education
By Julie Ingersoll — July 31, 2020
(RNS) — Delivering on promises to his evangelical base, the president's push to fund schools that reopen is aimed at undermining public education in favor of private Christian education.
Trump pledges to prevent ‘unacceptable’ repression of school prayer
By Adelle M. Banks — January 16, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said her department’s new guidelines require state agencies to inform it when complaints are filed about limitations to the free exercise of religion.
Academics criticize Department of Education probe of Middle East study program
By Yonat Shimron — September 26, 2019
(RNS) — Nineteen academic organizations, including the American Academy of Religion, signed a joint letter objecting to a U.S. Department of Education investigation into a Middle East studies program run by the University of North Carolina and Duke University.
Feds cite Islam focus in review of Duke-UNC language grant
By Collin Binkley — September 19, 2019
(AP) — The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program, arguing that it's misusing a federal grant to unfairly promote "the positive aspects of Islam" but not Christianity or Judaism
Pelosi, DeVos address Christian educators on policy and faith
By Adelle M. Banks — January 30, 2019
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The opening session of the conference of Christian college presidents featured speeches by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who spoke of their faith as an integral part of their work.
Faith-based education group is calling out Betsy DeVos
By Jack Jenkins — April 3, 2018
(RNS) — 'Our scripture says we’re all created in the image of God and are, therefore, of equal and immeasurable worth in the eyes of our Creator,' reads an open letter to the education secretary from the founder of The Expectations Project.
US top court set to rule on religious rights; travel ban looms
By Reuters — June 25, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) The ruling in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer potentially could narrow the separation of church and state.
Judgment day? Trump and religion at the 100-day mark
By Kimberly Winston — April 27, 2017
(RNS) A look at the president's first 100 days as they relate to religion and people of faith — and more policies that affect religion that are on the way.
Should Christians abandon public schools?
By Andrea Ramirez — April 27, 2017
(RNS) There is no 'one size fits all' schooling solution for Christian parents as we guide them to love the Lord with all their hearts, minds and strength.
The dangerous perversion of religion and politics I warned about
By Jerome Socolovsky — February 27, 2017
(RNS) A decade ago, a critic said a book I wrote about the threat from the religious right was a 'paranoid rant' while another detractor wrote my 'alarmist' views were 'exaggerated and implausible.'
5 faith facts about Betsy DeVos
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 6, 2017
(RNS) DeVos is a conservative Christian with roots in the Christian Reformed tradition who now attends Mars Hill Bible Church.
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