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'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
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Is there any way to get rid of her?
Matthew28
(1,796 posts)She is a truly evil person
dchill
(38,320 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)Trump, Devos, etc...these are monsters
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)deplorable
spanone
(135,632 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)of traitors, for sure.
riversedge
(69,713 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Or...
One year from now she'll crow about "complaints are down by 100%"...?
Both!
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Oh, wait. No. I don't pity you at all. Nope. Not at all.
HAB911
(8,811 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)HAB911
(8,811 posts)I've been a member since 1970!
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)will make violent revolution inevitable."
DeVos probably plans to use her brother's security company to suppress the latter eventuality.