The state education departments are given 14 days to ensure compliance.
The U.S. Department of Education is warning state education departments they have 14 days to cease their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts or risk losing federal funding.
The letter, penned by Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights within the Education Department, condemns what it describes as “overt and covert racial discrimination” in K-12 schools and universities, particularly under the banner of DEI policies over the past four years.
It specifically criticizes practices such as discriminating against white and Asian students, promoting ideas including that the United States was built on systemic racism, and encouraging segregation by race at graduation…
