[News] The Education Department Dropped Disparate Impact From Its Rules, and Fourteen States Say the Doctrine Still Stands
Washington removed the 1964 rule that let schools be judged by the effects of their policies and then told them that trying to shrink racial gaps in discipline is itself discrimination, while fourteen attorneys general answered that effects-based liability is still lawful under state law, setting up schools that must answer to two governments giving opposite instructions.
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