A parental rights group sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education Thursday calling on it to undo an Obama and Biden-era rule warning schools that if they discipline minority students more than white students they could lose federal funding, regardless of how many actual incidents require discipline for any group.
Parents Defending Education sent the letter pointing to a “Dear Colleague” letter sent out by the Biden administration, calling it “unlawful and “unConstitutional.”
Letters of this kind are how the Education Department issues new guidance for schools and lets them know that they could lose federal funding if they do not comply.
The colleague letter in question is the “School Discipline Letter” issued by the Education Department and the Department of Justice in May of 2023 which argued that racial disparities in discipline at public schools was a result of racial discrimination.
