The Democrats Aren’t Talking About Education Issues They Can Change
Candidates were given little time at the third presidential debate to discuss their proposals to transform college.
All of the ingredients seemed right. The Democratic 2020 hopefuls were lined up onstage in the gymnasium at Texas Southern University, a historically black university in Houston, Texas, for the third debate. Several of the candidates had announced plans to pump billions of dollars into HBCUs—institutions founded primarily after the Civil War to educate black people shut out of the rest of higher education. One of the to the Department of Education that it has desegregated its higher-education system, due in large part to how it has treated its black colleges.
