Press Release: Betsy DeVos Ignores Veterans on Gainful Employment

For Immediate Release:                                                                        Contact: Carrie Wofford, (202) 838-5050 August 10, 2018 Education Department failed to consider veterans’ perspectives in gutting the Gainful Employment rule, which imposed accountability on the lowest-performing schools that left students with worthless degrees, crushing loan debt  WASHINGTON, DC — As part of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s ongoing rollback of policies that protect student veterans from predatory...

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Press Release: Michael Festa Joins SpringboardVR as CBO

Michael Festa Joins SpringboardVR Team as Chief Business Officer PRESS RELEASE Los Angeles, Calif. (January 23, 2020) – SpringboardVR, a leading provider of VR venue management and content distribution infrastructure for location-based entertainment (LBE) has hired Michael Festa as Chief Business Officer.  Festa most recently served as Director of Distribution for virtual reality game developer and publisher Survios. As CBO,...

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Illinois Review

Local school districts could get hit with a multimillion dollar bill under a pension cost-shifting plan being floated by a top state Democrat. Senate President John Cullerton is proposing that school districts cover the costs of teacher pensions. Those costs — estimated at about $700 million — are now covered by the state. The Chicago Democrat is exploring the concept...

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