The second Donald Trump administration continues to ferret out racial favoritism in education and the federal workforce, and there is plenty to be found. The administration is now turning to K-12 classrooms and already has a good model to use for its latest order to end race-based quotas in school discipline.
On Wednesday, the White House issued an executive order on discipline, rejecting educators’ use of racial quotas when they mete out suspensions or expulsions among students. Such quotas have generated much discussion since President Barack Obama endorsed their use in 2014.
At the time, the Obama administration informed school personnel nationwide that if more minority students faced suspension or expulsion (called “exclusionary discipline”) than white students in their schools, the administration could open a civil rights investigation—regardless of the…
