Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

11. Department of Education · Minor

Review all Title VI cases for disparate impact allegations

Attempted

Printed page 335 11. Department of Education

“The next Administration should continue the policy of the Trump Administration in this area and direct the department to conduct a comprehensive review of all Title VI cases to ascertain to what extent these cases include allegations of disparate impact.”

What has happened

  1. Attempted

    Executive Order 14280 sec. 3(e)(i) requires the Secretary of Education, within 120 days and in coordination with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Homeland Security, to report to the President with "an inventory and analysis of the nature and consequences of all Title VI discipline-related investigations since 2009" - the comprehensive review of Title VI cases this Quote asks the Department to conduct. Executive Order 14281 sec. 6 imposes a parallel 45-day review of pending disparate-impact matters, but on the Attorney General and the EEOC rather than on ED.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • The report was due around 2025-08-21. No source we accept publishes it or says it was delivered, and OCR’s Dear Colleague Letter of 2026-08-18 - which would be the natural place to cite it - does not. Held at attempted for that reason.
  • The related asks on the same printed page are #844 (resolution agreements), #845 (joint ED-DOJ guidance), #846 (rescind the Biden guidance and regulation) and #847 (a rule saying Title VI has no disparate-impact standard); all five turn on Executive Orders 14280 and 14281 and are leveled together.

Checked 2026-09-06. The Status stays attempted; the negative is now made with a search that works. The open question was whether the EO 14280 §3(e) report was delivered. It is not public, and the search that says so is now a measurement rather than an impression.

The earlier searches used ed.gov’s usual search box, which does not search: it returns a full page for every query and the page’s text is identical — 8,098 characters — for “case processing manual”, “Title IX” and a nonsense term. The Department’s full-text search does work, and a nonsense term there returns “There are no results matching your search terms.” Run that way on 2026-09-06, “Executive Order 14280”, “school discipline report” and “discriminatory equity ideology” return only pre-window discipline pages, the rescinded 2014 Dear Colleague Letter, unrelated executive-order statements, and the 2018 Federal Commission on School Safety’s own hearing submissions. Nothing is the §3(e) report and nothing cites it. The 2,249-address ed.gov sitemap carries no such document either.

Reach: strong about publication by the Department, and silent about delivery. §3(e) requires a report to the President through the Domestic Policy Council, a kind of document that never enters a public index at all — no Federal Register entry, no docket, no agency report page. The item stays at attempted because the directive is real and the compliance cannot be known from sources we accept, not because a search came back empty.

Page-mates checked against the same reading on 2026-09-06 and unmoved: #844, #845, #846 and #847. One document found in the same search bears on #845 and does not move it — the Fact Sheet: Department of Education and Department of Justice Civil Rights Partnership (created 2026-06-15), an Economy Act interagency agreement under which DOJ’s enforcement powers back ED-OCR’s. It is an enforcement partnership, not the joint ED-DOJ guidance ending disparate-impact Title VI cases that #845 asks for; it names disparate impact nowhere and states that complaint handling is unchanged.

Action
other
Object
Title VI school discipline cases
ID
843