New Yorker: on Education


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Biden should pursue student-loan cancellation

One of the single most impactful things President Biden can do is pursue student-loan cancellation. It's entirely within his power. This really isn't a conversation about providing relief to a small, niche group of people. It's very much a keystone action politically. I think it's a keystone action economically as well. And I can't underscore how much the hesitancy of the Biden Administration to pursue student-loan cancellation has demoralized a very critical voting block.
Source: New Yorker on NY-14 2021 House incumbent, "An Insider?" Feb 14, 2022

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: They're replacing history with white-nationalist propaganda

You have the complete erasure and attack on our own understanding of history, to replace teaching history with institutionalized propaganda from white-nationalist perspectives in our schools. This is what the scaffolding of Jim Crow was. The question that we're really facing is: Was the last fifty to sixty years after the Civil Rights Act just a mere flirtation that the United States had with a multiracial democracy that we will then decide was inconvenient for those in power?
Source: New Yorker on NY-14 2021 House incumbent, "An Insider?" Feb 14, 2022

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