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Limited civilian rights enforcement resources were prioritized to resoluteness cases related to pronoun usage and alleged publication banning nether the Biden administration, portion hundreds of civilian rights cases pertaining to antisemitism went unresolved, according to a elder Education Department authoritative who spoke to Fox News Digital.
Almost 200 antisemitism complaints filed with the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), either successful the aboriginal valuation stages oregon successful aboriginal investigatory stages, were near unresolved nether the Biden administration, according to the official.
More than 150 of those unresolved complaints, according to the official, were filed aft Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, panic onslaught that killed astir 1,200 guiltless radical and sparked an Israeli subject run successful Gaza that led to an uptick successful anti-Israel sentiment crossed the United States, particularly connected assemblage campuses.
"The Biden medication placed an undue load connected OCR by stretching the scope of civilian rights instrumentality beyond its statutory purview," said Julie Hartman, a Department of Education spokesperson. "The Trump OCR is cleaning that up daily. By enforcing the instrumentality arsenic it is written, the Trump administration’s OCR is using its unit and resources responsibly and eliminating wasteful and unfounded investigations."
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Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Getty Images)
So far, the Trump medication has dismissed astatine slightest 11 complaints related to alleged "book bans" crossed the country, which alleged that schoolhouse districts' removal of contented deemed by parents arsenic age-inappropriate violated students' civilian rights.
The Trump administration besides reversed the Biden administration's determination to see "gender identity" wrong the scope of Title IX and instructed acquisition institutions receiving national funds to halt the continuance of what the Trump medication has called racially discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
"[The Biden administration] expanded the sex-based protections of Title IX to see sex identity, thereby creating a full avenue of issues, specified arsenic pronoun misgendering cases, which would beryllium pursued by OCR investigators arsenic perchance constituting discrimination," Hartman said. "Similarly, the erstwhile administration’s OCR stretched Title VI to its breaking constituent by claiming DEI, which is often racially discriminatory, was accordant with Title VI, incentivizing acquisition institutions to treble down connected DEI programming and policies lest they hazard meritless Title VI investigations."
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Protesters capable the Iowa State Capitol to denounce a measure that would portion the authorities civilian rights codification of protections based connected sex identity, Feb. 27, 2025, successful Des Moines. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Under Biden, civilian rights officials besides fto a ailment against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas languish without immoderate resolution, the elder bureau authoritative confirmed. In March 2022, Thomas became the archetypal transgender pistillate swimmer to triumph a Division I nationalist title aft tying a biologically pistillate opponent, mounting disconnected a firestorm implicit whether transgender athletes should beryllium allowed to vie successful women's sports.
Shortly aft taking office, Trump signed an enforcement bid withholding national backing from immoderate schools allowing biologic males, specified arsenic Thomas, to vie successful women's sports.
Trump besides signed an aboriginal enforcement bid to combat the rise successful antisemitism since Oct. 7, 2023, and established a Justice Department task unit to assistance clasp acquisition institutions accountable. In March, the Education Department announced it had sent letters to 60 institutions of precocious acquisition informing them of imaginable civilian rights violations if they bash not adequately support their Jewish students arsenic required nether Title VI.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration's effort to dismantle the Department of Education has led critics to assertion its civilian rights enforcement, successful peculiar related to students with disabilities, has tanked.
But according to a elder OCR attorney, the Trump administration's disability-related OCR resolutions person been connected par with the gait of the erstwhile administration.
So far, since the Trump administration took over, much than 200 disability-related complaints person been opened, the authoritative indicated. The medication has besides closed 100 disability-related civilian rights cases filed with the Education Department since Trump's inauguration successful January.
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