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DeVos wants to rewrite campus sexual assault guidelines

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pledges to alter campus sexual assault guidelines to put more emphasis on the rights of accused students.

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A sexual assault evidence collection kit.
Credit: Todd Wiseman

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed a series of changes to what she described as the "failed system" of campus sexual assault adjudication. "We must do better because the current approach isn't working," she said during a speech last week at at George Mason University. (The Washington Post)

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