The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/ - ThreadSky

aaup.bsky.social • 3 days ago

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds.

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mkverson.bsky.social•3 days ago

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aaup.bsky.social•3 days ago

This wildly broad overreach is the latest blatant attempt by the Trump administration to punish educators, target communities of color, and undermine decades of hard-won progress toward a multiracial democracy.
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aaup.bsky.social•3 days ago

Friday’s letter intensifies this administration’s clampdown on speech & expression related to race & identity, moving beyond the censorship of ideas into a war on the civil rights era itself. Cynical weaponizing of federal civil rights law serves the interests of ruling elites, not students.
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aaup.bsky.social•3 days ago

The letter betrays the Trump administration’s goal of consolidating power & ruling by fiat, fear, & propaganda. Their many-pronged political intrusion into higher education is intended to frustrate the ability of universities & faculty to accomplish their educational and research missions.
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aaup.bsky.social•3 days ago

For over fifty years, the AAUP has been fundamentally committed to ensuring that all students in all subjects are provided the full, fair, and honest education they deserve—that they have the freedom to learn.
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aaup.bsky.social•3 days ago

The AAUP holds that in order for colleges and universities to fulfill their public mission, they must endeavor not only to eliminate discrimination but to redress the persistent inequalities created by both past & present discriminatory practices and systems.
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aaup.bsky.social•3 days ago

Discriminatory attacks on efforts to advance knowledge about race, gender, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, & disability are inseparable from a larger & even more dangerous campaign against core academic values—including shared governance, academic freedom, & tenure—& learning itself.
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virtuistic.bsky.social•1 day ago

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cripdyke.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's not just about eliminating funding. Ruby Bridges' book about being the lone Black 6-yo escorted to 1st grade by federal marshals was already removed from classrooms in Florida -- prob elsewhere, too.

It won't be long b4 marshals escort Black kids out of integrated schools.

mementomorioh.bsky.social•2 days ago

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ampicard.bsky.social•2 days ago

Vance visited Munich to criticize Europe's so-called lack of free speech, while in the US, censorship + a supremacist fascist agenda are being imposed.
Could anyone have foreseen these brutal attacks on all fronts against fundamental civil rights? Academic freedom? Books being banned?
#AcademicSky

estherdv.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think nobody wanted to believe but in fact it was painted in multiple speeches and documents - lack of free speech and elections in Europe, said Vance - ignoring what happened just a few years ago on a January 6th...

kimwfisher.bsky.social•3 days ago

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