More distal are the longer-term issues which attempt to change the hostile climate, specifically Education for health professionals, and Discrimination reduction through general education of future leaders.
Mr. Ryan sent an e-mail message to the Department of Education saying he considered the Bush administration to be "hostile to public education".
The dimwitted plutocrat Betsy DeVos ― the first secretary of education hostile to public education ― protects fraudulent for-profit colleges that rip off struggling veterans.
Education historian Diane Ravitch says of DeVos, "[N]ever has anyone been appointed to lead in the past 150 years who was hostile to public education".
Florida has long struggled to take the lead in the State Most Hostile To Public Education contest, with North Carolina, Wisconsin and Nevada giving some real competition.
"This is not a hostile environment for higher education," said Patrick M. Callan, a higher education policy expert.
Its essential argument was that the loftier realms of higher education were increasingly hostile to religion and to conservative viewpoints.
"Aren't they all waiting for some chap who never turns up?" Gerry had been so keen for me to go to the High School, yet he was hostile to the power my education brought me.
She would be the first Secretary of Education in our history to be hostile to public education.
Notoriously hostile to the notion of higher education, Mao once told a Communist party colleague: "Knowledge is not acquired in schools".
