1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebar Is the Trump Administration Rethinking Title VI? February 4, 2019 Late last year, the Trump Administrations Federal Commission on School Safety (the Commission) wrapped up work on its final report, outlining
2、 its proposals to “help prevent tragedies” like last years mass shooting in Parkland, FL, that prompted the Commissions formation. By and large the report sounded familiar themesseeking ways to prevent school violence, protect schools and mitigate threats of harm, and better respond to violence when
3、 it does occur. Among its nineteen more specific proposals, however, was one that has drawn a more divided reactiona recommendation urging the Departments of Education (ED) and Justice (DOJ) to withdraw a slate of Obama Administration guidance documents addressing “racial disparities in the administ
4、ration of school discipline.” And both ED and DOJ have since delivered on that proposal, having officially rescinded their earlier school-discipline guidance in late December 2018. Though focused squarely on school discipline, the Commissions proposal appears to be of a piece with a larger policy ag
