The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: TomSea on September 28, 2019, 08:08:49 pm
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ACLU urges DeVos to end probe of Middle East studies program
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer
The American Civil Liberties Union urged the Trump administration Friday to drop its investigation into a Middle East studies program the agency says has focused too much on the "positive aspects of Islam" and misused grant money to promote "ideological priorities."
A letter from the group's Washington office urged Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to revoke her agency's threat to cut grant funding to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies unless it revises its programs.
The ACLU said the department is abusing grant rules to push its own views and is injecting the process with "the presidential administration's long pattern of anti-Muslim bigotry and discrimination."
Read more at: https://www.news-gazette.com/news/aclu-urges-devos-to-end-probe-of-middle-east-studies/article_cf46b282-8665-5dc4-a262-8acc9c5439b7.html (https://www.news-gazette.com/news/aclu-urges-devos-to-end-probe-of-middle-east-studies/article_cf46b282-8665-5dc4-a262-8acc9c5439b7.html)
I had heard not a word about this and I don't think it's been posted... sort of a big story for what a secretary of education does.
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NO.
Ramp up the investigation.
Put as many as possible of these "Middle East studies" OUT OF our classrooms.
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If the ACLU is agin it it's probably a good thing.