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Alyssa Milano has never been shy about sharing her dislike of Trump's Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her policies. Milano is also a passionate activist for the rights of sexual assault survivors. We wish we could say that it's rare for educational policy and sexual assault to come together as a subject, but it's 2018 and we know you've heard the news. They come together way more often than any of us should be comfortable with.

Schools have found themselves in the hot seat more than once in recent history with regard to how they handle sexual assaults on campus. The assaults typically happened between students, but in some cases the assaults happened to students at the hands of staff members. In either situation, the survivors had a right to be protected — which didn't always happen.