The Department of Education warns of state education departments that must eliminate policies of diversity, equity and inclusion or risk losing federal funds.
A letter from the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education was sent to the Departments of Education in the 50 States, notifying them that they have no more than 14 days to comply. The letter was shared on social networks by the government efficiency department led by Elon Musk.
“Institutions that do not comply with the Federal Civil Rights Law can, in accordance with the applicable law, face a potential loss of federal funds,” said Craig Trainor, undersecretary of civil rights assistant in the Department of Education.
The letter said that “open and covert racial discrimination that has been generalized in the educational institutions of this nation” will no longer be tolerated.
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The United States Department of Education Department is seen in Washington, on November 18, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
He argues that a decision of the Supreme Court in students for just admissions v. Harvard, who found that the affirmative action in the admission process of Harvard University violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment, should be more widely applied.
“The law is clear: treat students differently on the basis of the race to achieve nebulous objectives such as diversity, racial balance, social justice or equity is illegal under the precedent of the Supreme Court of Control,” The letter says.
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The United States Department of Education Department is seen on August 21, 2024 in Washington, DC (Getty images)
Trainor said that the Department of Education “will strongly enforce the law on equal terms for all preschool, primary, secondary and post -secondary educational institutions, as well as state educational agencies, which receive financial assistance.”
The Charter urges state education departments to “ensure that their policies and actions comply with the existing civil rights law … All efforts cease to avoid prohibitions on the use of race by relying on representatives or other means indirect to achieve such purposes “and” cease all dependencies in third -party contractors, cleaning or aggregators that are being used by institutions in an effort to avoid prohibited uses of race “.
The United States Department of Education Department in Washington, DC (Stefani Reynolds/AFP through Getty Images)
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The letter occurs after President Donald Trump signed executive orders that ordered the agencies that provide a plan to eliminate federal funds for “illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including gender ideology and the ideology of discriminatory equity. ” He also signed the orders to end the dei programs in federal agencies.
The Department of Education previously announced the elimination of the mention of DEI from documents and websites. The department also placed employees who directed Dei licensed initiatives and dissolved their diversity and inclusion council.
