Executive Order 14280: Reinstating Commonsense School Discipline Policies

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose and Policy
• Sec. 2. Definitions
• Sec. 3. Ensuring Commonsense School Discipline Policies
• Sec. 4. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children's safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory and unlawful ``equity'' ideology. In January 2014, the Department of Education and the Department of Justice jointly issued a ``Dear Colleague'' letter regarding school discipline. In that letter, the Department of Education and the Department of Justice explained that schools could be found to violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964--and therefore could lose Federal funding--if their disciplinary decisions ran afoul of a newly imposed disparate-impact framework under which race-neutral disciplinary policies, applied in an even-handed manner, may be improper if members of any racial groups are suspended, expelled, or referred to law enforcement at higher rates than others. […]

Federal Register notes

See: EO 14190, January 29, 2025