Congress Should Reject Obama Budget Increase for Education Department Office for Civil Rights

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'The Obama administration perversely rewards agencies that overstep their authority by giving them budget increases to handle the increased workload that results. 

A classic example is the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), where I used to work. President Obama wants a 31%budget increase for OCR for Fiscal Year 2016. That is a very bad idea.

OCR’s budget should be cut, not increased. Cutting its budget would make it harder for it to punish school districts and colleges for perfectly lawful and reasonable policies. People who write about educational issues, such as Reasonmagazine’s Robby Soave, and theNational Review’s George Leef, rightly oppose the proposed budget increase for OCR.

OCR has twisted virtually every statute it is charged with enforcing, such as Title VI, Title IX, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Citing Title VI, which bans racial discrimination, OCR has demanded that school districts adopt what are effectively illegal racial quotas in school discipline, even though that violates the Constitution, the Seventh Circuit’s decision in People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education (1997), and the plain language of the Title VI statute.'