{"id":500424,"date":"2021-05-12T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=500424"},"modified":"2021-05-12T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T17:36:07","slug":"biden-administration-expected-to-bring-back-obama-era-school-discipline-rules-which-led-to-racial-quotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-expected-to-bring-back-obama-era-school-discipline-rules-which-led-to-racial-quotas\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Expected To Bring Back Obama-Era School Discipline Rules, Which Led To Racial Quotas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-expected-to-bring-back-obama-era-school-discipline-rules-which-led-to-racial-quotas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=500424&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-73773902-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>In 2014, then-President Barack Obama\u2019s Education Department released school-discipline guidelines that insisted schools must discipline students of different races at the same rate, even if students of a particular race misbehave more often.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, President Donald Trump\u2019s administration rejected those guidelines, providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/bring-back-anti-discrimination-guidance-on-school-discipline-commission-urges\/2019\/07\">a statement<\/a> to Education Week that said: \u201cIn too many instances \u2026 the previous administration\u2019s discipline guidance often led to school environments where discipline decisions were based on a student\u2019s race and where quotas became more important than the safety of students and teachers. The Department\u2019s decision to rescind that guidance makes it clear that discipline is a matter on which classroom teachers and local school leaders deserve and need autonomy. The Secretary has continued to encourage local school leaders to implement discipline reforms that they believe will foster improved outcomes for their students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, President Joe Biden\u2019s Education Department is expected to reinstate those same race-based discipline guidelines, which civil rights attorney Hans Bader <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2021\/05\/11\/education-department-may-encourage-racial-quotas-in-school-discipline-and-promote-intersectionality\/\">described<\/a> as \u201cunconstitutional racial quotas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bader wrote that the guidelines were discussed at a May 11 event facilitated by the Education and Justice Departments. Speakers suggested Biden not only reinstate the Obama-era guidelines, but expand them. As Bader noted, the Obama guidelines \u201cincluded a controversial \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/letters\/colleague-201401-title-vi.html\">Dear Colleague Letter<\/a>\u2019 that told school systems they could be investigated by the Education Department for higher black suspension rates, even if suspensions were simply the result of\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/regproject.org\/paper\/a-review-of-department-of-education-programs\/\">\u2018neutral,\u2019 \u2018evenhanded\u2019<\/a>\u00a0application of school discipline rules, rather than veiled racism.\u201d Those who spoke in favor of expanding the Obama-era guidelines focused on \u201cintersectionality,\u201d or how one person can belong to multiple minority groups, such as a black transgender youth. Bader wrote that one transgender advocate who spoke at the event \u201cviewed metal detectors and gun bans as unfair to transgender youth, given that they are disproportionately bullied and feel the need to bring guns to school to defend themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bader also noted that multiple studies have shown that certain races have higher incidence of misbehavior \u2013 for a variety of factors, such as poverty. Further, the attorney wrote, basing discipline decisions on race is unconstitutional:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9.929873772791\">\n<p><em>Because misbehavior rates are not the same for different racial groups, requiring schools to suspend all racial groups at the same rate would be an illegal racial quota. The federal appeals court in Chicago overturned a provision requiring a school district not \u201cto refer a higher percentage of minority students than of white students for discipline unless the district purges all \u2018subjective\u2019 criteria from its disciplinary code.\u201d It\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.resource.org\/pub\/us\/case\/reporter\/F3\/111\/111.F3d.528.96-4138.96-3226.96-3662.96-2410.96-3283.html\">ruled<\/a>\u00a0such \u201cracial disciplinary quotas\u201d are illegal, and \u201cviolate equity in its root sense. They entail either systematically overpunishing the innocent or systematically underpunishing the guilty.\u201d (See People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education\u00a0(1997).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speakers at the event also claimed black students were more likely to be harshly disciplined for \u201cminor, nonviolent, subjective infractions,\u201d but as Bader pointed out, discipline data debunks the claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal appeals court in Philadelphia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leagle.com\/decision\/199684290f3d7521713\">pointed out in 1996<\/a>\u00a0that \u2018statistical data\u2019 showed larger differences in discipline rates by race for major, \u2018very objective\u2019 offenses than for minor, \u2018less objective\u2019 offenses. Like several other courts, it did\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/regproject.org\/paper\/a-review-of-department-of-education-programs\/\">not accept<\/a>\u00a0the idea that higher black discipline rates are due to racism in the schools,\u201d Bader wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, then-President Barack Obama\u2019s Education Department released school-discipline guidelines that insisted schools must discipline students of different races at the same rate, even if students of a particular race &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277933,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-73773902-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Administration Expected To Bring Back Obama-Era School Discipline Rules, Which Led To Racial Quotas","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-73773902-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Administration Expected To Bring Back Obama-Era School Discipline Rules, Which Led To Racial Quotas","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}