Last week the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent out a letter to all 50 states telling them they had two weeks to rid their schools of DEI initiatives or face investigations and potentially cuts to their federal funding. Here’s a sample of what the letter said:
The Department will no longer tolerate the overt and covert racial discrimination that has become widespread in this Nation’s educational institutions. The law is clear: treating students differently on the basis of race to achieve nebulous goals such as diversity, racial balancing, social justice, or equity is illegal under controlling Supreme Court precedent.
As you would expect, states are still responding to the letter, partly because blue states don’t want to go along with this and partly because two weeks is not much time for educations bureaucrats to do anything at all….
