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Education Department Strikes Regulations Requiring Racial Quotas in School Discipline

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Education is rescinding several disparate-impact regulations that justified racial quotas in school discipline, the Daily Signal can first report.

Disparate impact is an approach to civil rights enforcement that claims a neutral policy that does not discriminate on its face can constitute illegal racial discrimination if it has a “disproportionate” statistical effect among different racial and ethnic groups. 

“We should be making decisions based on meritocracy,” Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey told the Daily Signal in an interview. “We should be making decisions based on on qualifications. This is just one additional important step, where we are demonstrating that any inclusion of race in any decision that is made within a school has to stop.”

The Obama administration used disparate-impact to........

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