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  • Civil Rights Overreach: Quotas for college prep courses?

    03/16/2010 5:18:02 PM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 8 replies · 388+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | March 16, 2010 | Editorial Board
    Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last week that the Obama Administration will ramp up investigations of civil rights infractions in school districts, which might sound well and good. What it means in practice, however, is that his Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will revert to the Clinton Administration policy of equating statistical disparity with discrimination, which is troubling. OCR oversees Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination by race, color or national origin in public schools and colleges that receive federal funding. In a speech last week, Mr. Duncan said that "in the last decade"—that's short...
  • Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education

    03/08/2010 5:15:45 AM PST · by reaganaut1 · 16 replies · 162+ views
    New York Times ^ | March 7, 2010 | Sam Dillon
    Seeking to step up enforcement of civil rights laws, the federal Department of Education says it will be sending letters in coming weeks to thousands of school districts and colleges, outlining their responsibilities on issues of fairness and equal opportunity. As part of that effort, the department intends to open investigations known as compliance reviews in about 32 school districts nationwide, seeking to verify that students of both sexes and all races are getting equal access to college preparatory curriculums and to advanced placement courses. The department plans to open similar civil rights investigations at half a dozen colleges. Education...