Art Coleman
@artindc.bsky.social
Founding Partner, EducationCounsel, LLC. Former DAS, USED OCR.
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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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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...
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April 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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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...
Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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March 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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...
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We put all these charts into a post for people to share. bit.ly/4iJKSCu
March 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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.
My colleague @artindc.bsky.social digs into the recent OCR "Dear Colleague" letter, in which the Admin says it'll use federal protections against racial discrimination to go after educational policies and programs that advance diversity, equity and inclusion.
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EducationCounsel - Overreaching and Misleading: An Analysis of the U.S. Department of Education’s February 14, 2025, “Dear Colleague” Letter on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policies and Programs
On February 14, 2025, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education issued a “Dear Colleague” letter regarding the Trump Administration’s approach to civil rights...
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February 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Exhibit A. Clear evidence of overreach, overbreadth and vagueness in violation of constitutional norms...by Trump anti-DEI executive orders.
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📣New Blog Post📣
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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tinyurl.com/CurriculumEO
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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tinyurl.com/CurriculumEO
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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January 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
📣New Blog Post📣
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
1/
tinyurl.com/CurriculumEO
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
1/
tinyurl.com/CurriculumEO