Tag: Title VI
US government investigating NY, MA school districts, Eastern Washington University
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced Title VI investigations on Tuesday of Seekonk Public Schools (Mass.), Yonkers Public Schools (N.Y.) and Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash.
The department doesn’t announce...
Ed Department starts Title VI investigations into five more colleges
Universities in Illinois, Vermont, California, Pennsylvania and New York are being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for potential violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
On Tuesday, the OCR named...
‘Campus Reform’: Indiana University under Title VI probe for Jew-hatred
Indiana University-Bloomington, a 204-year-old institution which U.S. News & World Report ranks among the nation's top 75 universities and top 35 public schools, is under investigation for Jew-hatred under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The...
Ohio State, Temple U, others under Title VI investigation
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced on Tuesday that it is investigating alleged Title VI violations of four schools and a district.
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Minn.), Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pa.), The...
White House announces Civil Rights Act applies to forms of antisemitism
The Biden administration is touting what it regards as a “landmark” move in the implementation of its National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
“Eight federal agencies clarified—for the first time in writing—that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of...
Federal civil-rights officials open investigation into anti-Semitism at Brooklyn College
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint alleging Jewish students at Brooklyn College have been subjected to severe and persistent...
Legal group says Duke University must grant pro-Israel campus group recognition under federal law
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is calling on Duke University president Vincent Price to formally recognize the school’s chapter of Students Supporting Israel, saying it is the “only way...
Republicans urge education secretary to enforce civil rights protections for Jewish students
A group of 19 Republican members of Congress on Wednesday sent a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona highlighting rampant anti-Semitism at American colleges and universities, and urging him to apply Title VI...
Lawfare Project to Gov. Newsom: Ethnic-studies curriculum violates civil-rights laws
The Lawfare Project is urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to prevent the implementation of its recently approved Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum over concerns that it could violate federal and state civil rights laws.
In a...
In settlement with US Education Department, NYU to revise its discrimination policy
New York University has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) following a complaint filed on behalf of a student that cited multiple anti-Semitic incidents on campus, the first...