State-run, land-grant HBCUs are owed more than $13 billion, the White House says
Source: NPR
September 18, 2023 7:14 PM ET
Land-grant, historically Black colleges and universities have missed out on more than $13 billion they should have gotten in the last three decades or so, according to letters the Biden administration sent to the governors of 16 states appealing to them to invest more money in HBCUs.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack sent letters to the governors of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Cardona and Vilsack cited data from the National Center for Education Statistics and found that the gap in funding "could have supported infrastructure and student services and would have better positioned the university to compete for research grants," and that the HBCUs "would be much stronger and better positioned to serve its students, your state, and the nation if made whole with respect to this funding gap."
The schools mentioned in the letters were established under the Morrill acts. The Morrill Act of 1860 gave states 30,000 acres to establish public colleges and universities, such as Auburn University, University of Georgia, University of Kentucky and more.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200230948/land-grant-hbcus-funding
Link to joint Department of Education/USDA press release - https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretaries-education-agriculture-call-governors-equitably-fund-land-grant-hbcus
Link to copies of letters sent to each of the affected governors (PDF) - https://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/files/2023/09/Secretary-letter-1890.pdf
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fucking racist states, are a "random number".
Got it.
From the press release linked to - https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretaries-education-agriculture-call-governors-equitably-fund-land-grant-hbcus
Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Integrated Postsecondary Education Survey (IPEDS) that ranges from 1987 to 2020, the departments were able to calculate the amount that these institutions would have received if their state funding per student was equal to that of 1862 institutions. Unequitable appropriated funding of the 1890 institutions in the states ranges from $172 million to $2.1 billion, causing severe financial gaps. In the last 30 years alone, these funds could have supported vital and much-needed infrastructure and student services and would have better positioned the recipient universities to compete for grants to increase educational opportunity for students.
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Here is the government data source site under the Dept. of Education where the data can be searched and reports generated (which is what was done) - https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/
But you gotta keep the n*****s in their place and "sell" making things equitable. Yup.
The Supreme Court neutered almost everything Democrats said or did.
Updated January 13, 2022 6:30 PM ET
Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test rule Thursday, declaring that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had exceeded its authority.
But at the same time, the court upheld a regulation issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that mandates vaccines for almost all employees at hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers that receive federal funds.
The vote to invalidate the vaccine-or-test regulation was 6 to 3, along ideological lines.
"Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly," the majority said in an unsigned opinion. "Requiring the vaccination of 84 million Americans, selected simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees, certainly falls in the latter category."
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https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072165393/supreme-court-blocks-bidens-vaccine-or-test-mandate-for-large-private-companies
Another example that is going on right now, the SCOTUS is considering whether the administration (DEMOCRATS) "overstepped" their authority trying to get social media companies from promoting COVID-19 misinformation.
Sept. 14, 2023, 1:47 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 14, 2023, 3:02 PM EDT
By Rebecca Shabad and Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that would restrict the Biden administration's contact with social media companies. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito issued the brief less than two hours after the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to step in. It gives the court more time to consider what steps to take before it decided whether to grant the administration's request. In the meantime, the lower court ruling will remain on hold until midnight Sept. 22.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urged the Supreme Court to stay an injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in July, which was partly upheld by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week. The district judge had ruled this year that some government agencies and Biden administration officials should be restricted from communicating and meeting with social media companies in order to moderate their content.
The decision is in response to a lawsuit from the GOP attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who alleged U.S. government officials went too far in pressing social media companies to address posts related to Covid-19 vaccines and the 2020 election. Alito's order, which does not mean the court will necessarily grant Prelogar's request once it is considered in more detail, said the states should respond by Wednesday.
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"The implications of the Fifth Circuit’s holdings are startling," Prelogar wrote. "The court imposed unprecedented limits on the ability of the President’s closest aides to use the bully pulpit to address matters of public concern, on the FBI’s ability to address threats to the Nation’s security, and on the CDC’s ability to relay public health information at platforms’ request." Prelogar argued that the original injunction is "vastly overbroad," saying that "it covers thousands of federal officers and employees, and it applies to communications with and about all social media platforms" regarding content moderation on such topics as national security and criminal matters.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-block-curbs-contact-social-med-rcna105098
But you know, it's always "Democrats'" fault.
It got brought again with the latest versions of the vaccine that were just approved. I posted about it in what was probably a "boring" LBN post. The new CDC Director attended the ACIP discussion/approval meeting and it was good to see her in that role for the first time - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143129226
Other LBNs related to this -
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143129299
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143128512
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143129226
This one you even posted in - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143107554
Everyone knows who this virus started under and the administration has done everything they could to push money, test kits, vaccines, and other pharmaceuticals to the public to keep people safe. Meanwhile, the GOP has done everything they could to muddy the waters with their spin masters and the stuff about whether COVID-19 was "lab-created" or "from the wild".
There are a lot of "disparate" interests on DU - some are fixated on "Ukraine", some are fixated on what is happening with "jobs", some are fixated on "COVID", some are fixated on issues related to "climate change", some are fixated on "the economy, 'Bidenomics', and interest rates", some are fixated on "women's healthcare" and "access (or lack thereof) to healthcare" in general.
HHS Secretary Bercerra went after DeSatan just a few months ago -
By Ben Leonard
06/07/2023 05:44 PM EDT
Updated: 06/07/2023 07:09 PM EDT
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra took aim at Florida governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis for sowing mistrust in Covid-19 vaccines and safety measures.
Becerra said that people still dying of Covid are mainly “either unvaccinated or undervaccinated” and that “if you’re dying of Covid today, you didn’t take precautions” in response to a question about DeSantis’ vaccine skepticism from White House reporter Adam Cancryn at POLITICO’s Health Care Summit.
“If you listen to someone telling you not to take that precaution, it’s not just your fault. It’s the fault of that leader who doesn’t give you the best information. If leaders choose not to take care of their people, that’s on them.”
DeSantis and his surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, have questioned whether the vaccines meet the cost-benefit test for some populations, such as kids and young men, who can suffer rare side effects from the shots but are also at low risk from the disease. By way of contrast, Becerra touted the work of the Biden administration and his Department of Health and Human Services in pushing out vaccines.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/07/becerra-desantis-covid-deaths-00100884
When one tunnel-visions their own personal interests, they ignore the rest that has to be and is being addressed.
And THIS is the kind of bullshit that has become headwinds to "messaging". Every time Democrats in the adminstration "fight back", the fucking 5th Circuit gets RW loons file cases that are designed to not only stifle the messaging, but halt the actual functioning of the agency responsible for the vaccines and medications that are needed to manage COVID-19 infections (let alone any other meds like those for abortions, etc) -
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143124453
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143089107
Every time there is a COVID-19 thread, it devolves into a trainwreck because you have some here who have "moved on" and others who have been "sounding the alarm". I post however much I can find about what Democrats are doing and saying many get yawns or even get locked as "not important".
