The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on July 23 announced deregulatory actions that it says will no longer require schools to consider a child’s race when disciplining them for disruptive behavior.
These “disparate-impact” provisions have existed for decades but became more widely known under President Barack Obama, who withheld federal aid from districts if black and Hispanic students were repeatedly disproportionately suspended in comparison with students of other races.
In April of 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to restore equal opportunity and meritocracy, which in theory eliminates the use of disparate-impact liability. The U.S. Department of Justice removed the terms from its regulations in December, but the Department of Education had not announced the same action until now….