this Ministry of Education It is clarified that observations such as Black History Month do not violate orders warning the state education department that they must eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies or otherwise could lose federal funds.
The guide was sent a letter to the education departments of all 50 states in mid-February by the Ministry of Education and notified them on February 28 Comply with the order.
The guidance reads: “The VI title prohibits recipients of receiving federal funds from being distinguished by race, color, or nationality.” Added “Schools are not allowed to treat students based on race, engaging in racial stereotypes or creating hostile environments for a particular race to carry out different strategies or plans for students.
“For example, planned schools focus on interests in specific cultures, heritages and world fields, and they themselves do not violate Chapter 6, assuming they are open to all students, regardless of race,” he said. Guidance continues. “As long as they do not engage in racial exclusion or discrimination, they will not educate, cultural or historical observations, such as Black History Month, International Holocaust Day or similar events, and celebrate or recognize historical events and contributions, and promote awareness.”
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The guide dated February 28 also says: “Neither policy nor program violations in Chapter 6 depend on the use of specific terms, such as ‘diversity’, ‘equity’ or ‘inclusive’.”
This letter In February, Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary of civil rights for the Ministry of Education, said: “Educational institutions have created indoctrination students based on false premises based on “systemic and structural racism” and advanced discriminatory policies and practices.”
“Proponents of these discriminatory practices seek to further justify these discriminatory practices (especially over the past four years) “Diverency, equity and inclusion” (“dei”), moving racial stereotypes and clear racial awareness into daily training, programming and discipline,” he wrote.
The U.S. Department of Education is headquartered in Washington, DC (J. David Ake/Getty Images)
“All educational institutions are advised to: (1) ensure that their policies and actions comply with existing civil rights laws; (2) circumvent all efforts to racial use by relying on agents or other indirect efforts to achieve such purposes; (3) all dependence on third-party contractors to place their responsibility on third parties to determine efforts, or to some extent, or to a certain extent, or to a certain effort. “Agencies that do not comply with federal civil rights laws may face potential losses of federal funds in line with applicable laws. ”
The letter comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing agencies to provide a program to cancel federal government funding for “illegal and discriminatory treatment and inculcation” in K-12 schools based on gender ideology and discriminatory fairness, including “illegal and discriminatory treatment and inculcation” in K-12 schools. He also signed an order to terminate the federal agency DEI program.
On February 1, the U.S. flag and U.S. Department of Education flags fly outside the U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, DC. (Reuters/Annabelle Gordon)
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The Ministry of Education previously announced the removal of DEI from documents and websites. The department also took holidays for employees leading the DEI initiative and dissolved its diversity and inclusion committee.
Landon Mion of Fox News contributed to the report.
