Education Department Praised for Ending Outcome-Based Discrimination Rules

The U.S. Education Department is receiving praise for its recent decision to end disparate impact race-quota regulations. An editorial in The Washington Post argued that civil rights laws protect individuals from discrimination, not to guarantee equal statistical outcomes. The department removed disparate impact from Title VI regulations in late July, meaning neutral school policies or practices that produce unequal outcomes by race will no longer be treated as violations of federal law.