A school surveillance group is presenting a civil rights complaint to the Department of Education (DOE) against the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) about an alleged breed-based scholarship.
Breitbart News learned exclusively to defend the education of education (previously parents defending education) to the Civil Rights Office of Do (OCR) before its presentation on Wednesday. The National Base Organization, who says that its mission is to “recover our schools from activists who impose harmful agendas”, alleges that UWM is “discriminat[ing] On the basic race of the breed in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Law of 1964 (Title VI) and the Equality of Protection clause of the amendment 14 to the Constitution of the United States. “
“Ending scholarships based on skin color is not equity: it is racism, repalated,” Breitbart News, founder and president of the Education of Education, told Breitbart News. “The University of Wisconsin-Madison is executing a modern version of separate but equal, and the federal government is paying the bill. If title VI means something, this has to end. The education department must close it now. “
Civil Rights Office Administrative Complaint
The complaint specifically indicates to the UWM Lawton subsidy, or “the Lawton undergraduate minority retention program”, which was established in 1986 “Provide financial assistance to minority Wisconsin students designated by statues (African -American, Latinos, American natives (American Indians/Eskimos) and Asians from the southeast or Vietnamese, Cambodian descendants or HMONG) or HMONGO’s ancestry) the Grant website.
The scholarship is between $ 1,000 and $ 3,300 per academic year and can recover for a maximum of eight semesters or up to $ 16,000, the status of the website and the complaint.
Lawton’s subsidies seems to be administered through the various UWM schools and universities, including:
- College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Engineering College
- College of Letters and Sciences
- Education School
- Human Ecology School
- Nursing School
- Pharmacy School
- Financial aid for students
- Wisconsin School of Business
UWM lists the criteria chosen for Lawson’s subsidy as follows [emphasis added]:
- Be a Wisconsin resident.
- Identify as African -American, Latin, American native (American Indian/Eskimo), Southeast Asia
or Vietnamese, Cambodia, Laosiano or Hmong decent. - They have reached a second year standing or higher, but they have not yet resorted to their first degree.
- Send the free request for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) every year and should show a student
Aid index (SAI) below 10,000, as well as financial need - Keep a minimum cumulative GPA.
- Keep full -time registration and complete at least 24 credits in the previous academic year.
- Comply with any other criteria established by your school or university.
“According to the school, the program” was established in 1986 to provide financial assistance to Wisconsin University of Minority Wisconsin. “Consequently, a financial benefit is granted exclusively and without complexes on the basis of the race in violation of Title VI and the 14th amendment of the Constitution,” the complaint alleges.
Defense education alleges that the supposed “discrimination of the scholarship on the basis of the breed” states that the university has received federal funds in violation of Title VI, which establishes that “No person in the United States, by race, color or national origin, will be excluded from participation, the benefits will be denied or discrimination under any program that receives federal financial assistance. “
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The organization also points to Section 1 the 14th amendment and the decisions of the Supreme Court that have the bullial segregation and non -stitionable affirmative.
“The orientation of the departments on the title VI clarifies that covered educational programs and activities may include, among others: ‘admissions, recruitment, Financial aidAcademic programs, treatment and services, advice and guidance, discipline, classroom allocation, qualification, vocational education, recreation, physical education, athletics and housing, “continues the complaint.
“Consequently, we ask that the department quickly investigate the accusations in this complaint, act quickly to remedy illegal policies and practices, and request an appropriate relief,” requests the complaint.
UWM is remarkable one of the 45 universities that are already under investigation for OCR’s opportunities, but limits the election based on the breed of the participants, “the department announced in March.
“The department is working to reorient the application of civil rights to ensure that all students are protected from illegal discrimination,” said the Secretary of Education of the United States, Linda McMahon, in a statement at that time. “The agency has already launched Title VI investigations in institutes where anti -Semitic harassment of wide extension of wide propagation of broad propagation and title IX of Title IX has been informed in entities that supposedly continue with all those that all universes describe. Ads advertisements Ads advertisements Ads advertisements Ads advertisements Ads advertisements Ads and advertisements
“Students must be evaluated according to merit and achievement, not preached by the color of their skin. We will not yield on this commitment,” he added.
The Department of Education said that the institutions that violate the title VI that prohibits discrimination over race, color and national origin in education programs and activists could lose federal funds.
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