DeVos Commencement Speech Draws Protests
There is an outcry over the secretary of education's invitation to speak at the commencement of a private, Christian, historically black college in Florida.
by Anya Kamenetz
May 10, 2017
2 minutes
Fifty thousand signatures on protest petitions. Calls on the president of the university to resign. People on Twitter saying they're mailing back their degrees.
It's probably not what the leadership of Bethune-Cookman University was expecting when they announced their speaker for today's commencement ceremony. But Education Secretary Betsy DeVos seems to bring a unique level of controversy
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