President Donald Trump has tasked the Departments of Justice and Education with ending affirmative action in K-20.
The executive order, released on Tuesday, aims to end “illegal discrimination” throughout the government. It also takes aim at “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” initiative.
It asks the DOJ and Secretary of Education to ensure schools are complying with the 2023 Students for Fair Admissions Supreme Court case which outlawed affirmative action in higher education.
The executive order also rescinds President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 order mandating affirmative action in government.
Trump criticized “dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences.”
He wrote further:
Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system. Hardworking Americans who deserve a shot at the American Dream should not be stigmatized, demeaned, or shut out of opportunities because of their race or sex.
The order follows on Trump’s promise to create a “colorblind and merit based society,” as previously reported by The College Fix.
“This week, I will … end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based,” Trump said during his inaugural address on Monday.
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