The United States Department of Education’s Office of the General Counsel published a memorandum on Friday that states that LGBTQ students are not expressly included in protections under Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination at federally funded institutions. Questions about how Title IX applies to LGBTQ students surfaced after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark
January 7, 2021
An educational expert recently warned that President-elect Joe Biden could mandate school districts promote critical race theory.
Max Eden, a senior fellow for the Manhattan Institute specializing in education policy, described a number of ways the Biden administration could move the Department of Education further left in the next four years.
Eden said in
The Biden transition team has promised to rescind it [President Trump’s executive order banning critical race theory], implicitly endorsing critical race theory. Biden’s administration could decide to go further and issue a DCL to mandate that school districts across America promote critical race theory.
Tweet also pledged to exclude whites from future meetings
Just hours after our report about a no-whites academic event at the University of Florida, a professor filed a civil rights complaint against the taxpayer-funded institution.
University of Michigan-Flint economist Mark Perry, who regularly files Title IX and Title VI complaints against sex- and race-restrictive programs at schools and colleges, asked the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to open an investigation.
Though the Nov. 19 virtual event was hosted by graduate students in the Anthropology Department, the department itself promoted the event at least twice: in an email to the Anthropology 2301 class and by retweeting an organizer’s tweet about the event.
Politics and law
Shortly after Joe Biden was declared president-elect, the cabinet rumor mill got working. Mitt Romney for Health and Human Services? Doug Jones for attorney general? These murmurs appeared to belie President Trump’s warning that a Biden administration would be run by far-left radicals, with one exception: the speculation that Biden would appoint a teachers’ union president as secretary of education.
Ultimately, Biden nominated Connecticut education commissioner Miguel Cardona. Compared with teachers’ union leaders, Cardona appears moderate. But Biden’s Department of Education transition team looks as though it came straight off the field of a National Education Association (NEA) versus American Federation of Teachers (AFT) softball game. It seems all but certain that on education, Biden will govern to the left of Barack Obama.
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Jan. 2, 2021
The Trump administration has left the Education Department in a state of distress.Credit.Alex Brandon/Associated Press
The departing education secretary, Betsy DeVos, will be remembered as perhaps the most disastrous leader in the Education Department’s history. Her lack of vision has been apparent in a variety of contexts, but never more so than this fall when she told districts that were seeking guidance on how to operate during the coronavirus pandemic that it was not her responsibility to track school district infection rates or keep track of school reopening plans. This telling remark implies a vision of the Education Department as a mere bystander in a crisis that disrupted the lives of more than 50 million schoolchildren.