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Kevin Carey

Washington, D.C.

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VP, @NewAmericaEd. Words: @NYTimes, @Washingtonpost, @TheAtlantic, @Voxdotcom, @WIRED, @TIME, @Slate, etc. I've made my mind a sunless space.

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  • Harvard Has a Weapon in The Fight Against Trump. Here’s Why the University Isn’t Using It.

    2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Kevin Carey

    For the past month, President Donald Trump has been stalking the richest universities in the world like a horror movie serial killer picking off a group of frightened teenagers one by one. Why aren’t they using their multibillion-dollar endowments to fight back? The spree started in early March, when the administration announced it was holding $400 million in federal grants to Columbia hostage until the university agreed to a lengthy list of demands.

  • Trump freezes Cornell, Northwestern funding: How colleges can leverage endowments

    2 weeks ago | vox.com | Kevin Carey

    For the past month, President Donald Trump has been stalking the richest universities in the world like a horror movie serial killer picking off a group of frightened teenagers one by one. Why aren’t they using their multibillion-dollar endowments to fight back? The spree started in early March, when the administration announced it was holding $400 million in federal grants to Columbia hostage until the university agreed to a lengthy list of demands.

  • Trump’s Executive Order on Education: Weak, Illegal, and Doomed to Fail

    1 month ago | newamerica.org | Kevin Carey

    When it finally arrived, President Trump’s long-promised Executive Order directing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to take “all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education” was short, weak, and substance-free.

  • Trump Administration Will Strip Students' Civil Rights If Education Leaders Allow It

    1 month ago | newamerica.org | Kevin Carey

    In Linda McMahon’s first week as Secretary of Education, the Trump administration’s dual agenda for education was thrown into sharp relief. Their plan is to degrade the federal government’s capacity to support vulnerable students while simultaneously weaponizing education law against the regime’s ideological enemies.

  • There’s Nothing “Final” About McMahon’s Mission to Destroy the Department of Education

    1 month ago | newamerica.org | Kevin Carey

    Hours after the Senate confirmed her as the U.S. Secretary of Education, embattled professional wrestling executive Linda McMahon sent her staff an email charging them with a “final mission” to destroy the Department from within. Eliminating the Department is a deeply unpopular idea. A New America poll commissioned in late February found that only one-quarter of adults support the department’s closure.

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15 Apr 25

RT @Harvard: The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other priv…

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11 Apr 25

RT @atrupar: Brooke Rollins: "We went from a frontier republic of the late 1700s to the world's greatest economic power, until about 100 ye…