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• News·Inside Higher Ed·24 Jul 2026

  ED Scraps Tool to Investigate Discrimination

  The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has eliminated a long-standing tool used to investigate whether institutional policies disproportionately harm minority groups, marking a significant policy shift away from disparate impact analysis in discrimination cases.

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  <span>ED Scraps Tool to Investigate Discrimination</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/files/2025-02/GettyImages-2198722212.jpg" width="1024" height="683" alt="Education Department building"> </div> <span><span>Sara Weissman</span></span> <span><time datetime="2026-07-24T03:00:00-04:00" title="Friday, July 24, 2026 - 03:00 AM">Fri, 07/24/2026 - 03:00 AM</time> </span> <p>For decades, the Office for Civil Rights investigated whether educational institutions’ policies disparately impacted minority groups in discriminatory ways. Not anymore.</p> <div class="field field--name-field-authors field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field__label">Byline(s)</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/author/sara-weissman" hreflang="en">Sara Weissman</a></div> </div> </div>

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