{"id":4156,"date":"2011-12-02T17:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2011-12-02T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T21:38:52","slug":"usdoes-friday-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=4156","title":{"rendered":"USDOE&#8217;s Friday surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea whether USDOE&#8217;s guidance today on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/campaign-k-12\/2011\/12\/civil_rights_officials_issue_m.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CampaignK-12+%28Education+Week+Blog%3A+Politics+K-12%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">use of race in school assignments<\/a>\u00a0(blog by <em>Ed Week&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0Lesli Maxwell)\u00a0is a common-sense extension of federal court decisions or a policy push, but the release of the guidelines on a Friday (which signals a &#8220;this is not news we want people to pay attention to&#8221;) is inconsistent with the joint release by the Department of Justice and the Department of Education (the coordination of which says &#8220;this is a big deal&#8221; to me).<\/p>\n<p>The advice for K-12 schools appears to validate race-neutral approaches for individual-student decisions and to push heavily at Justice Kennedy&#8217;s concurring opinion in the <em>Parents Involved<\/em>\u00a0(2006) case, where he indicated that a school district might well be able to use race explicitly where using population-level data for actions such as school siting decisions or attendance-zone decisions.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to know the extent to which the White House was involved in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea whether USDOE&#8217;s guidance today on the\u00a0use of race in school assignments\u00a0(blog by Ed Week&#8217;s\u00a0Lesli Maxwell)\u00a0is a common-sense extension of federal court decisions or a policy push, but the release of the guidelines on a Friday (which signals a &#8220;this is not news we want people to pay attention to&#8221;) is inconsistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-152","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}