Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Times

Seeking to step up enforcement of civil rights laws, the federal Department of Education says it will be sending letters in coming weeks to thousands of school districts and colleges, outlining their responsibilities on issues of fairness and equal opportunity.

As part of that effort, the department intends to open investigations known as compliance reviews in about 32 school districts nationwide, seeking to verify that students of both sexes and all races are getting equal access to college preparatory curriculums and to advanced placement courses. The department plans to open similar civil rights investigations at half a dozen colleges.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan is to announce the initiatives in a speech on Monday in Selma, Ala., where on March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights marchers were beaten by Alabama state troopers.

Mr. Duncan plans to say that in the past decade the department’s Office for Civil Rights “has not been as vigilant as it should have been in combating gender and racial discrimination and protecting the rights of individuals with disabilities,” according to a text of the speech distributed to reporters on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/education/08educ.html

[SlingBlade]

1. What ? ....WHAT ! .... ACLU places full-page ad in NYT !

ACLU places full-page ad in NYT morphing Obama into Bush over 9/11 trials
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7863757

This is becoming quite the bizarro world with Barrack Obama at the helm
Having held up as examples of such "Good Democrats" as Lincoln, Nelson and
personally protecting the worm Lieberman and his particular brand of Liberals was one thing.

But his new best, best, bestest friend, Lindsey Graham has caused quite the stir and rightly so
as they discuss the spit dripp'in afternoon delight, Military Tribunals.
How does a constitutional scholar come to this conclusion by the way ?

Where does it end Mr. President ?

Where DOES it end ?

K&R Too Bad, So Sad.
Simply because I want to document this.
It started just moments after the election...
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