OCR Calls on Schools to ‘Stop Racial Balancing’ in New Discipline Guidance

Education Department Tells Schools Race Can’t Factor Into Student Discipline

A letter to educators follows up on last month's rescission of longstanding discrimination rules.

Feds Launch Civil Rights Probes Into Schools That Punished Kids Differently Based on Race

The department announced Tuesday it has opened Title VI civil rights investigations into school districts in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, alleging administrators directed staff to factor race into disciplinary decisions. The probes come alongside new federal guidance that formally ends Obama-era policies critics say forced schools to adopt racial quotas in student discipline. “For too long, the Left’s pursuit of ‘equity’ has…

Title VI Update: Education Department Ends Race-Conscious Discipline

_DOE Ends Race-Based School Discipline Image by Canva The U.S. Department of Education issued new guidance Tuesday directing schools receiving federal funds to apply student discipline policies without regard to race, ending prior approaches that treated statistical disparities as potential civil rights violations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated on X that “For too long, the left’s pursu…

OCR calls on schools to ‘stop racial balancing’ in new discipline guidance

A Dear Colleague letter said weighing discipline policies' racial outcomes and making decisions based on them is race discrimination under Title VI.

Department of Education to No Longer Require School Discipline Policies That Discriminate on the Basis of Race

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Education issued guidance Tuesday urging schools to neither favor nor disfavor students based on race when it comes to discipline, reversing Obama-era guidelines. The department also announced new civil rights investigations into two school districts that allegedly used race-based disciplinary policies. “For too long, the Left’s pursuit of...

Department of Education's New Race-Neutral Discipline Rules

The Department of Education sends a "Dear Colleague" letter applying new race-neutral discipline rules, scrapping disparate impact.