"Dear Colleague:" A look at how he U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights will seek to undermine civil rights
The U.S. Department of Education has long used a series of “Dear Colleague” letters sent to state and local education officials to outline the Department’s broad policy goals and to explain the Department’s interpretation of federal law and court decisions. Along with the law itself, with non-regulatory guidance issued by the Secretary, with the Code of Federal Regulations, and with findings of the Inspector General, these Dear Colleague letters are a fundamental component of federal, state, and local education governance in the United States. Unfortunately, this most recent letter from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of CivilRights is horrifyingly anti-American. Along with the purges of public employees, this letter is a function of ongoing hostile takeover of federal agencies with the intent of destroying them from within and preventing them from implementing the laws enacted by the Congress. Here are my notes based on my first reading. LETTER (p. 1): “Discriminatio...