Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project: on Education

Barack Obama: Focus discipline on disparate impact and restorative justice

In 2014, the Obama Administration muddied the standard for civil rights enforcement under Title VI for student discipline cases. Before [Obama], a school would be in violation of federal law for treating black and white students differently for the same offense (disparate treatment); under the Obama Administration schools were at risk of losing federal funding if they treated black and white students equally but had aggregate differences in the rates of school discipline by race (disparate impact). Civil rights investigations could only end when school districts agreed to adopt lenient discipline policies, commonly known as "restorative justice." Academic studies, as well as student and teacher surveys, suggest that academics and school climate have been harmed substantially by this push. The Trump Administration rescinded the Obama Administration's guidance on school discipline and corrected the Obama Administration's overreach in Title VI enforcement. Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.334-335 Apr 1, 2023

Barack Obama: Publicize colleges that claim faith-based Title IX exemption

Educational institutions can claim a religious exemption from the strictures of Title IX. In 2016, the Obama Administration published on the Department of Education's website a list of colleges that had applied for the exemption. This "list of shame" of faith-based colleges, as it came to be known, has since been archived on ED's website, still publicly available. The President should issue an executive order removing the archived list and preventing such a list from being published in the future. Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.357 Apr 1, 2023

Donald Trump: Rescinded policy on "disparate impact" in school discipline

The next Administration should continue the policy of the Trump Administration in this area and direct the department to conduct a comprehensive review of all Title VI cases to ascertain to what extent these cases include allegations of disparate impact.
As part of this effort, the new Administration should also direct the department and DOJ jointly to issue enforcement guidance stating that the agencies will no longer investigate Title VI cases that exclusively rest on allegations of disparate impact.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.334-335 Apr 1, 2023

Heritage Foundation: End"List of Shame" of faith-based college Title IX exemption

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