Education Department closes 1,200 Obama-era civil rights probes

[Free Vulcan]

The Education Department has closed more than 1,200 civil rights investigations launched during the Obama administration, a ProPublica analysis found.

An analysis of more than 40,000 civil rights cases found that upward of 1,200 probes started during the Obama administration and lasting at least six months were shut down by the department under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

The analysis also found that the percentage of findings of civil rights violations or orders of corrective changes has dropped under the Trump administration.

About 51 percent of the investigations during the last 15 months of the Obama administration ended in the finding of a violation or corrective action. Thirty-five percent of cases ended with the same results during the first 15 months of the Trump administration.

http://thehill.com/regulation/other/393450-education-dept-shuts-down-1200-obama-era-civil-rights-probes

[Sanguine]

Why was the education department doing civil rights violations probes?

[mountaineer]

Good. If there were any actual merit to them, they should have been directed to the DOJ (not that I trust that department's civil rights division with all it's BHO leftovers, but that should be their bailiwick).

[Fishrrman]

Sanguine asked:
"Why was the education department doing civil rights violations probes?"

Because -- don't you get it? -- under the obammunists, it became the job of EVERY government agency to fight "racism" and the evil whites.

VERY good move by the Trump administration to simply "close" these "cases" -- the circular file is the best place for them.