Conservative: CRT Infiltrates DOE
“Americans have a right to expect that the leader of public education’s top civil-rights-enforcement body would unequivocally oppose racial discrimination,” writes the American Enterprise Institute’s Max Eden. Too bad Catherine Lhamon, President Biden’s pick to head the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, doesn’t share that expectation. Lhamon “defined racism as the belief that race determines character traits,” but then refused to definitively say whether it is racist for schools to grade differently, segregate students or shame them based on race. “Lhamon’s refusal to admit that any of these obviously racist, illegal practices violates federal civil-rights law comes quite close to an admission that she will, at best, not enforce equal protection equally” and, at worst, actively enforce critical race theory. But without any senators willing to question her in a public hearing, “Lhamon seems poised to take office, with reason to think she’ll be subject to minimal oversight and, at most, muted criticism.”