President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday, revoking an anti-white racist Obama-Biden era school discipline guidance that was issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) in January 2014.
The President signed a total of seven new education executive orders relating to college universities, AI in education, and DEI practices in schools.
“The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory and unlawful ‘equity’ ideology,” the order titled “Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies” reads.
In 2014, a letter from the DOJ and DOE threatened schools that if they discipline certain racial groups at a higher rate than others, they could be found in violation of civil rights law and jeopardize their federal funding.
The guidance was rescinded in 2018 after the Federal Commission on School Safety released findings that “schools ignored or covered up — rather than disciplined — student misconduct in order to avoid any purported racial disparity in discipline numbers that might catch the eye of the federal government.” However, it was reimposed in 2023 by the Biden Administration, as explained in Section One of the order.
If Black students were breaking the rules or violating the law more than White students, schools were forced to look the other way. “The letter effectively required schools to discriminate on the basis of race by imposing discipline based on racial characteristics, rather than on objective behavior alone,” the order states.
Under the order, the Secretary of Education is directed to work with the Attorney General to issue new guidance to local and state educational agencies “regarding school discipline and their obligations not to engage in racial discrimination under Title VI in all contexts, including school discipline” within 30 days. The Secretary of Education is also directed to “take appropriate action with respect to LEAs and SEAs that fail to comply with Title VI protections against racial discrimination in the application of school discipline.”
Staff Secretary Will Sharf presented the order to President Trump, saying that under the Obama Administration, “The Department of Justice issued guidance that made it almost impossible for schools to enforce adequate disciplinary policies.” He continued, “Basically, they focused on CRT and sort of diversity ideology instead of actually just enforcing the rules in classrooms to ensure a safe learning environment.”
“It gives teachers the ability now to have discipline in their classroom and discipline the person who is being disruptive. We took that away,” said Education Secretary Linda McMahon as the President signed the new law.
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The President was also joined by a North Carolina educator who highlighted the importance of the new law in keeping students safe in public schools.
“We have three students that should be here with us today. We have Austin Metcalf… Serenity Baker, and Nahzir Taylor from Charlotte, North Carolina,” she said, crediting lax disciplinary policies for violence in public schools.
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I’m so honored to be here. This has been an eight-year journey for me to raise awareness to the violence that’s in public schools and the critical need to address violence in public schools. Again, been doing it eight years because most administrations like to keep the violence hidden. We have three students that should be here with us today. We have Austin Metcalf… Serenity Baker, and Nahzir Taylor from Charlotte, North Carolina, who was shot in the back as he was getting off of a school bus because they thought he was a part of a big brawl that happened inside a public high school. So, this is very important and critical legislation that we have to keep our educators safe, we have to keep our students safe, and public schools have to be safe environments. So I think, like I said, I’ve done this journey alone, I’ve been on it, but I have a whole team behind me now. I spoke at the RNC, and I told millions that Donald Trump and his administration was going to make schools great again, and I feel that we’re on the right path, and I’m just honored to be here
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