President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday seeking to restore the Obama-era net neutrality rules. Biden will sign an executive order to call for more regulation and enforcement against big tech and large telecommunication companies to spur more competition. Among the other regulations, the executive order will encourage the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama-Era Offshore Drilling Regulation.
September 28, 2018 by
The Trump administration rolled back another Obama-era regulation, rescinding a rule pertaining to the offshore drilling industry. The Department of the Interior on Thursday announced changes to the 2016 oil and gas production safety systems rule, offshore drilling regulations that were put in place during the Obama administration. Among the reforms: independent verification of safety equipment and procedures […]
Trump Administration Urged to End Obama-Era âMisstepâ of School Leniency Rules for Minority Students.
April 8, 2018 by
Civil rights and education experts continue to urge the Trump administration to scrap an Obama-era school leniency policy that coerced school districts into limiting reports of minority studentsâ assaultive and threatening behavior. Under the Obama policy, in place now in more than 50 school districts throughout the country, students whose behavior would have previously drawn […]
Trump Administration Urged to End Obama-Era âMisstepâ of School Leniency Rules for Minority Students.
April 4, 2018 by
Civil rights and education experts continue to urge the Trump administration to scrap an Obama-era school leniency policy that coerced school districts into limiting reports of minority studentsâ assaultive and threatening behavior. Under the Obama policy, in place now in more than 50 school districts throughout the country, students whose behavior would have previously drawn […]
Betsy DeVos: Dept. Of Ed To Review Obama-Era School Discipline Reform Policy.
March 12, 2018 by
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos told CBSâs â60 Minutesâ Sunday Night that the Obama-era school discipline reform policy is now under review. âWe are studying that rule. We need to ensure that all students have an opportunity to learn in a safe and nurturing environment. And all students means all students,â DeVos told host Lesley […]
U.S. Civil Rights Commissioners: Obama-Era School Leniency Policy Brings âFearâ and âDangerâ
March 8, 2018 by
Two members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights say the Obama-era school leniency policy that discourages reports of threatening behavior by minority students to law enforcement is dangerous. âMany schools that have adopted lenient disciplinary policies â i.e., defining offenses down so that blacks and Hispanics arenât suspended or expelled at significantly higher rates than […]
Marco Rubio Urges Revision of Obama-Era School Discipline Policy that Discourages Reporting Student Threats.
March 7, 2018 by
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is urging the Trump administrationâs Departments of Justice and Education to revise the Obama-era school discipline policy that discourages school districts from reporting threats to law enforcement in the name of social justice for minority students. Rubio writes in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, shooting rampage by former Marjory […]
Did Lax Obama-Era School-Discipline Policies Enable the Parkland Shooter?
March 4, 2018 by
A father and his two children outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four days after the shooting in Parkland, Fla., February 18, 2018. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Broward County had adopted guidelines designed in part to limit law-enforcement involvement with students, even those who posed a threat. The closer you look at the school shooting in Parkland, […]
FCC Repeals Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rule.
December 15, 2017 by
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the FCCâs âRestoring Internet Freedom Orderâ on Thursday, which will repeal the agencyâs 2015 net neutrality regulation. Chairman Pai told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday, âI think what net neutrality repealed would actually mean is we once again have a free and open Internet. The government would not be regulating […]
Report: Trump to End Obama-Era DACA Program
September 1, 2017 by
President Donald Trump will end an Obama-created amnesty program that gave more than 850,000 young illegal aliens protected status and work permits to remain in the United States. According to Fox News reports, the Trump Administration is set to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) this week, days before a coalition of state […]