The Education Department Helps Combat Woke Discrimination

The Biden administration is imposing a woke agenda on America using the vast power of the administrative state. Through a series of executive orders, the president has charged every federal agency with advancing “diversity, equity and inclusion,” a divisive ideology that justifies pervasive racial discrimination. Yet one corner of the federal bureaucracy is stifling the woke agenda simply by enforcing the law.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is no conservative bastion. Staffed mostly by liberal career attorneys, and situated within one of the government’s most aggressively woke departments, it is charged with upholding federal antidiscrimination laws in education, including Title VI and Title IX. OCR is required by law to investigate complaints of discrimination at educational institutions that receive federal financial assistance. The office is rejecting much of what higher education is attempting to do at the behest of woke ideologues.