The following article by Lydia Wheeler was posted on the Hill website April 11, 2018:
Civil rights groups are fighting to stop Education Secretary Betsy DeVosfrom rolling back Obama-era guidance on school discipline that aimed to protect black students from being punished more severely than their white peers.
DeVos met with education advocates on the left and right last week to talk about the joint guidance the Education and Justice departments issued in 2014 to help schools avoid policies that discriminate, even unintentionally, against black students. Continue reading “DeVos review of racial bias guidance stirs controversy”