EducationCounsel Alert: Court Rulings Halting “Anti-DEI” Enforcement & EOs on Disparate Impact, Discipline, Accreditation, Foreign Influence, HBCUs, AI, and Workforce Development (4/25/25) EducationCounsel Alert for April 25, 2025 This EducationCounsel Alert includes updates on several significant federal education policy developments in the last several days, including seven new Execu...

Check out our latest (jam-packed) EducationCounsel Alert with updates on many important developments in public education including 7(!) new Executive Orders and 3(!) court orders halting some key parts of the Administration's "anti-DEI" efforts:

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This post, from a number of Columbia Law faculty, does an excellent job laying out the various illegalities in the Trump Administration's cutoff of funding to the university. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

We put all these charts into a post for people to share. bit.ly/4iJKSCu

Some perspective on the recent USED OCR Dear Colleague letter that threatens enforcement against schools' and IHEs' fulfillment of their equal opportunity missions associated with diversity, equity and inclusion.

Exhibit A. Clear evidence of overreach, overbreadth and vagueness in violation of constitutional norms...by Trump anti-DEI executive orders.

EducationCounsel - “Consistent With Applicable Law”: Critical Statutory Constraints on President Trump’s Executive Order about K-12 Curricula In one of his latest executive orders, President Trump is attempting to influence decisions that traditionally belong entirely to state and local governments, namely what topics, ideas, and texts are ...

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Q: What does federal law say about the aspects of President Trump’s recent executive order, "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” that attempt to influence what's taught or even discussed in K-12 public school classrooms?

A: A lot

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