Students’ Open Letter Calls on Senate to End Dept of Education Overreach

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'Students around the country have signed an open letter calling on the U.S. Senate not to increase the budget of an Education Department Office that has been at the forefront of efforts to promote censorship, speech codes, and the whittling down of due process for students accused of sexual harassment.

The Senate is currently deliberating on whether or not to allocate additional funding to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). This is an office that has pressured colleges to adopt a range of disastrous policies, from stifling campus speech codes to poorly-disguised racial quotas in disciplinary policies.

Most notoriously, the OCR is responsible for the 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter, which threatened universities with the loss of federal funding if they did not accept responsibility for sexual assault on their campuses. This letter played a major role in the factually baseless panic over sexual abuse on campus, which led to students effectively losing their due process rights when accused of sexual assault or harassment.'