Trump Going After Affirmative Action
July 9, 2018
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"The Trump administration is sending colleges a stern warning: consider race as little as possible, or not at all, when you’re admitting students — a sharp reversal from the previous administration.
Under Obama, the Education Department stressed that diversity was valuable and that there were legal ways for colleges to consider race in admissions to obtain it. According to a new report from the New York Times, the Trump administration will overturn that guidance, returning to Bush-era instructions that played up the limits placed on colleges when considering race.
The move is, in one sense, just the latest swing in a decades-long back and forth: When Republicans take office, the Education Department emphasizes what colleges can’t do on race and admissions. When Democrats take control, it stresses what can be done."*
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