Posted on 01/08/2016 4:04:49 AM PST by george76
Overwhelming consensus' that Office for Civil Rights is treating its guidance as binding.
Arne Duncan's temporary replacement isn't getting a honeymoon from the chairman of a Senate subcommittee, who is upset about the Department of Education's machinations against colleges.
Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma is demanding answers from acting Secretary of Education John King about the authority of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to force colleges to strip students of their right to due process.
Lankford isn't the first senator to raise the question of whether OCR's methods - issuing "Dear Colleague" letters that purport to explain existing regulations, not make new ones - are permitted by statutory law.
Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, who chairs the committee that oversees education, grilled another Education official this fall over whether OCR's so-called guidance is legally binding.
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Lankford is taking his gripes all the way to the acting secretary because the Department of Education has a reputation among agencies for throwing its weight around with no consequences
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colleges and universities "are so afraid of the Department of Ed, when we meet with them, they simply say, 'Don't use our names. We don't want to alienate the department or risk losing our federal funding
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Lankford claimed that OCR's letters "advance substantive and binding regulatory policies that are effectively regulations
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Scholars and academics "across the political spectrum" agree that OCR's letters run contrary to the First and Fourth amendments and are in no way required by "Title IX and its implementing regulations
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
My goodness, what an example of Newspeak! Up is down, wet is dry!
But that is just the tip of the iceberg.
What the Department of Ed is doing is setting the psyche of young adult/adolescent minds to fail to grasp their Constitutional Rights. It is a type of mass brainwashing and it is coming from inside our own government!
The generation of “snowflakes” as they were called a few months back will have no problems taking “Rights” away from anyone they feel is a bully, forces them to a safe space, etc.
When a fish stinks, it stinks from the head.
The federal government has no constitutional role regarding education. The federal government should abolish their Department of Education and let the states and local governments manage education.
“We don’t want to alienate the department or risk losing our federal funding”
There is the key. give up the federal crack, I mean, funds and they have no power over anything.
On President Cruz’s second day in office, he needs to eliminate the Department of Education. Along with the Departments of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Homeland Security.
And he should take a long hard look at the Department of Labor.
No department that cannot demonstrate significant progress in the field of its purview should be funded further.
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