Feds Order Colleges to Stop Checking Criminal/School Discipline History Because it Discriminates

Judicial Watch ^ | MAY 20, 2016

[detective]

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Feds Order Colleges to Stop Checking Criminal/School Discipline History Because it Discriminates Against Minorities

The Obama administration has ordered the nation’s colleges and universities to stop asking applicants about criminal and school disciplinary history because it discriminates against minorities. Institutions are also being asked to offer those with criminal records special support services such as counseling, mentoring and legal aid once enrolled. The government’s official term for these perspective students is “justice-involved individuals” and the new directive aims to remove barriers to higher education for the overwhelmingly minority population that’s had encounters with the law or disciplinary issues through high school.

Instructions are outlined in a cumbersome document (Beyond the Box) issued by the U.S Department of Education (ED) this month. It says that “data show plainly that people of color are more likely to come in contact with the justice system due, in part, to punitive school disciplinary policies that disproportionately impact certain student groups and racial profiling.” Because education can be a powerful pathway to transition out of prison and into the workforce, it’s critical to ensure that admissions practices don’t disproportionately disadvantage justice involved individuals, the directive states. Colleges and universities should also refrain from inquiring about a student’s school disciplinary history—including past academic dishonesty—because that too discriminates against minorities. Civil rights data compiled by ED show “black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students and often for the same types of infractions.”

[detective]

Another destructive policy from the Obama administration.

[Genoa]

special support services such as counseling, mentoring and legal aid

Hahahaha! At first I thought this was real. Good one!

[rarestia]

I find it interesting that when they frame it as a policy defining discrimination, it’s okay, but when white people point out that minorities commit a majority of crimes, we’re racists. The Liberals always show their hands without realizing their own ignorance.

[Jenny217]

This is just awful policy. This jackass is throwing hand-grenades into every American institution. GO TRUMP!

[vette6387]

Trump probably has a full time staff just adding to the list of illegal acts that President Trump will be undoing his first few days in office. The other thing that I hope is that there is a list of current “government employees” whose continued employment will cease this coming January. He needs to root out the “RAT moles” in every department.

[Rurudyne]

And another rule there’s no delegated power for.

[floozy22]

"The Obama administration has ordered"

This is becoming the most frequently printed/published phrase in recent memory.

[moehoward]

Next…
“Feds Order Banks to Stop Checking Credit History Because it Discriminates’

[Genoa]

And another rule there’s no delegated power for.

Ah, but it's optional, as is accepting federal largesse in the form of student aid and grants.

[Snickering Hound]

Students concerned about sexual assault is sooo 2013.

[Oldexpat]

The liability insurance providers will have something to say about this.

[Zarro]

I’m desensitized. It doesn’t even shock me any more.

I can’t even laugh at this one. The system gave them the “history” through “racial profiling”? Good thing they explain it. /s

[butlerweave]

Asking a question will soon be against the law ,oh wait

[goldstategop]

Blacks are thugs - they can be expected to be decent, law-abiding folks, so let’s create affirmative action for black thugs.

Obama officials don’t stop to realize how patronizing and racist it sounds.

[SkyDancer]

Liberalism has gone totally mad.

[Sir Napsalot]

Over-reach much?

[Vigilanteman]

Most of this could not happen if Fedzilla didn't have a stranglehold monopoly on student loans.

Political reality is that some bailout is inevitable. A partial bailout in return for getting the government out of the loan business completely would be a bargain.

Logical Six Point solution to the student loan crisis:

1. Write off 25%. This is a necessary concession to the debtors who, in many cases, were duped into taking out loans they couldn't afford.
   
2. Return 75% to the institutions of origin for collection.
   
3. Institutes get to keep 5% of the 75% for their trouble but must remit the 70% back to the government.
   
4. They are free to hold up transcripts, cancel degrees and employ all the other measures they did to collect against the debtors as when they were students.
   
5. If the institutions still cannot pay back the government within the normal loan times, the government is free to attach their endowments, real estate and other assets.
   
6. Government gets completely out of the loan business and encourages the institutions to line up their own lenders. If a tiny college like Hillsdale (Michigan) can do it, then there is no reason anyone else can't do the same.

   Yes, the taxpayer takes a 30% hit up front to liquidate this crisis, but that is far better than continuing to grow this monster.

[Political Junkie Too]

“Feds Order Banks to Stop Checking Credit History Balances Because it Discriminates’

Fixed it.

-PJ

[Olog-hai]

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

— Adam Smith

And not only that: the DOJ is pigeonholing all minorities as criminals.

[Carry me back]

Now the Trump administration can say no more affirmative action or any quotas.