Donald Trump’s war with higher education escalated this week with a series of moves, including an executive order threatening to upend accreditation for Academia. Trump also continued to escalate demand on Harvard specifically, letting other universities know that the White House means business with its enforcement of the Civil Rights Act under its new interpretations. That also holds the promise of opening up private actions through the False Claims Act that could dismantle the financial models of universities and colleges.
Those are big guns indeed. However, another EO taking aim at compulsory education may have deeper and longer-lasting impact on American education, yet it didn’t attract much notice. Prosaically entitled “Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies,” the order reverses decades of encroaching federal restrictions on disciplinary…
