Surprise Letter from Ed Dept on DEI Confuses Schools

(from Inside Higher Ed) Late Friday night, long after most people had settled in for a long Presidents’ Day weekend, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights declared in a four-page letter that any race-based policies or programming in K-12 schools and colleges were unlawful. If institutions fail to comply in 14 days, they risk losing federal funding. It’s unclear if any of the letter’s dictates will hold up in court. The letter is far outside current legal norms, according to experts. 

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