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Category: Dept of Education

Dept of Education

June 6, 2018

2,500 Photos of Betsy Devos Attending Functions, Nov-Dec 2017

Part of my ongoing project requesting EVERY photo taken of Cabinet members during specific time periods.

Dept of Education / FOIA

July 25, 2017

[updated] Dept of Education Heavily Censors Its Memo on Transgender Students’ Civil Rights

UPDATE [Sept 25, 2017]: My appeal was successful. The Education Department’s FOIA Appeals Coordinator completely reversed the initial decision and has released the memo in full, with no redactions. (You can read it below.)...

$$ Watch / Dept of Education / Financial Disclosures

April 27, 2017

DeVos $$ Watch

When high-level officials in the Executive Branch buy, sell, or transfer stock and other securities worth over $10,000, they have to file disclosures with the Office of Government Ethics. I’m keeping my eye out...

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Rachel McGonagill @RachelMcGonagi1·

December 10

@MorganRadford Christmas Cupcakes, @ICE is STILL adding beds, in direct violation of Congressional orders.

Opening a for-profit detention center in TX that’ll hold up to 1,000 immigrants. Run by Management and Training Corporation (MTC), Bluebonnet will open this week.
https://t.co/1OvNpVXTum

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Marty Baron@PostBaron·

December 9

.@washingtonpost sued twice for release of these docs over 3-year FOIA battle that continues. 2,000 pages of unpublished notes & transcripts from 428 interviews were released. Docs ID 62 interviewees. Post still seeks 366 names that remain blacked out. https://t.co/AiFLiZuSy4

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Dan Diamond@ddiamond·

December 8

New: SEEMA VERMA said she was robbed of $43,000 in jewelry, including a $5,900 Ivanka Trump-brand pendant. Then she asked taxpayers to cover the cost. https://t.co/AkfvitaoHl

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Paul Galante @galanp02·

December 7

#NSA hired #McKinsey in 1956 to reorganize the agency: https://t.co/kVF6esxPA4

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Citizens for Ethics@CREWcrew·

December 7

Traditionally in the State Dept, officers take notes and transcribe the Secretary’s calls, to send readouts to officials and to comply with federal record-keeping laws.

Under Mike Pompeo, that long-standing practice has ended.
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