Fremont High School students in Oakland Unified use restorative justice circles to welcome newcomers, get to know each other and build bridges between different cliques and ethnic groups.
Credit: Tatiana Chaterji / Oakland Unified
Top Takeaways
- Trump executive order challenges the concept that race-neutral policies can be discriminatory.
- Administration said focus on equity in discipline has harmed student safety, while advocates say it’s an excuse to roll back civil rights protections.
- Experts say executive order threatening to withhold funding from schools doesn’t have much bearing on California schools — for now.
The Trump administration has taken aim at a key assumption of federal civil rights enforcers and California’s school discipline strategy: that large racial disparities are a red flag for discrimination.
Trump’s executive order, released Wednesday, attacks the concept of…
