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Rescind the rule requiring race to be considered in special education

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 11, p. 336. Written by Lindsey M. Burke.

Rescind the rule requiring race to be considered in special education

The document says “shouldWho acts: Department of EducationHow: regulationp. 336 in the PDF
What the document says

“The next Administration should immediately commence rulemaking to rescind the Equity in IDEA regulation.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 336

The regulation requires states to consider race and ethnicity in the identification, placement and discipline of students with disabilities. The chapter says that as a result students are being denied access to special education because of their race or ethnicity, that this was not the intent of the rule but an inevitable byproduct of its assumptions, and that no replacement regulation is required.

What the document actually says

“The next Administration should immediately commence rulemaking to rescind the Equity in IDEA regulation.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 336
That sentence, in plain words

Start the process to cancel this rule at once.

What this is about

One rule makes states look at race in special education. The book says that leads schools to turn children away. It wants the rule cancelled.

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