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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 03:42 AM Jun 2017

'Stunning and Dangerous': DeVos Memo Reveals Plan to Roll Back Civil Rights

'Stunning and Dangerous': DeVos Memo Reveals Plan to Roll Back Civil Rights
"President Trump and his administration can claim to oppose discrimination all they want, but actions speak louder than words," said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
by Jake Johnson, staff writer

In a move decried as "more evidence of backward thinking" by the Trump administration, an internal memo from the Department of Education's office for civil rights lays out the agency's plan to roll back investigations into civil rights violations at public schools and diminish Obama-era rules requiring "schools and colleges to overhaul policies addressing a number of civil rights concerns," the New York Times reported on Friday.

"It's really a way of curtailing the way civil rights enforcement should be handled."
—Catherine Lhamon of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

According to the memo, "requirements that investigators broaden their inquiries to identify systemic issues and whole classes of victims will be scaled back," the Times noted. "Also, regional offices will no longer be required to alert department officials in Washington of all highly sensitive complaints on issues such as the disproportionate disciplining of minority students and the mishandling of sexual assaults on college campuses."

The directive, first published by ProPublica, was met with outrage from civil rights groups and activists, who portrayed it as part of a larger effort by President Donald Trump to undercut anti-discrimination provisions in public schools and dismantle laws that protect students from gender- and race-based abuse.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/17/stunning-and-dangerous-devos-memo-reveals-plan-roll-back-civil-rights

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'Stunning and Dangerous': DeVos Memo Reveals Plan to Roll Back Civil Rights (Original Post) workinclasszero Jun 2017 OP
the deporables love turnip's racism. pansypoo53219 Jun 2017 #1
That evil woman has to go. smirkymonkey Jun 2017 #2
Sick Matthew28 Jun 2017 #3
K&R. dchill Jun 2017 #4
These are not people Perseus Jun 2017 #5
KGOP, Inc. on the attack against fairness, honesty and decency Achilleaze Jun 2017 #6
traitors to the american dream spanone Jun 2017 #7
They belong to a political party workinclasszero Jun 2017 #8
k for visibility riversedge Jun 2017 #9
Cruella devos - pro discrimination and sexual assault ? elehhhhna Jun 2017 #10
Betsy, I pity you when Karma finally comes around to bite you in the ass. GoCubsGo Jun 2017 #11
The ACLU will not be scaling back HAB911 Jun 2017 #12
Right. :) We rejoined November 7, knowing it would become extremely busy. Hortensis Jun 2017 #15
Excellent! thank you! HAB911 Jun 2017 #16
JFK: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible KingCharlemagne Jun 2017 #13
Here's the ProPublica article on roll-back across the federal government. Hortensis Jun 2017 #14
 

elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)
10. Cruella devos - pro discrimination and sexual assault ?
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 09:35 AM
Jun 2017

Or...

One year from now she'll crow about "complaints are down by 100%"...?

Both!

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
11. Betsy, I pity you when Karma finally comes around to bite you in the ass.
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 09:38 AM
Jun 2017

Oh, wait. No. I don't pity you at all. Nope. Not at all.

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
13. JFK: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 09:42 AM
Jun 2017

will make violent revolution inevitable."

DeVos probably plans to use her brother's security company to suppress the latter eventuality.

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