The Education Department rescinded a decades-long standard for civil rights enforcement by announcing it will no longer consider school policies that disproportionately harm specific student groups as discriminatory unless the discrimination is intentional.
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No. 47’s Education Department is backing away from addressing civil rights for Black students
An Associated Press investigation examines how the 47th president’s Education and Justice departments are reshaping civil rights enforcement by challenging programs designed to address longstanding inequities for Black students and other students of color. Critics argue the administration’s interpretation of anti-discrimination law reverses decades of civil rights policy, while supporters contend federally funded programs must be race-neutral and comply with existing law.
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Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
By Collin BinkleyAP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families across the nation. Among a total of more than 1,300 layoffs announced March […]
