Trump Administration Vows To Fight Any Schools That Defy Order To End DEI
The left-wing American education establishment is clutching its pearls at the thought of dropping its push for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology after the Department of Education threatened its federal funding, but the Trump administration is calling its bluff.
“The Department of Education will no longer allow education entities to discriminate on the basis of race,” Department of Education Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor told The Federalist. “This isn’t complicated. When in doubt, every school should consult the SFFA [Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard] legal test contained in the [“Dear Colleague” letter]: if an educational institution treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person’s race, the educational institution violates law.”
The Trump administration distributed a “Dear Colleague” letter last Friday telling schools to shut down their DEI programs for training, teaching, and hiring or face the loss of their federal funding. The memo uses the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action from SFFA to set up guidance for schools to shut down their racially discriminatory DEI programs that have “toxically indoctrinated students with the false premise that the United States is built upon ‘systemic and structural racism’ and advanced discriminatory policies and practices.”
The Department of Education said that additional guidance on implementation is forthcoming.
However, as The Federalist reported, The School Superintendents Association (AASA), which represents the leaders of school districts across the country, sent a memo to its members to ignore the guidance. (Read more from “Trump Administration Vows To Fight Any Schools That Defy Order To End DEI” HERE)
