Cory Brewer and Dan Lennington:
This civil rights law protects all students from discrimination based on race. But Underly is determined instead to push racially divisive “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies, and to blame the Trump administration for “dictating” education policy.
But this isn’t some novel federal overreach — it’s longstanding federal law.
The U.S. Department of Education last month asked all state education officials to certify compliance with Title VI, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color and national origin. As recently interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard, Title VI prohibits schools from using race as a “negative” or “stereotype,” effectively prohibiting discriminatory DEI policies and programs, such as those programs that target only Black or Native American students for special help. Title VI also prohibits “racial balancing,” which is the policy of attempting to sort students based on race or close down schools or programs, as planned in Wauwatosa.
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Civics: Why and how was Jill Underly Re-elected? (a bit of uniparty analysis as well). And.
