The U.S. Department of Education under President Donald Trump has issued an ultimatum to all federally funded educational institutions: eliminate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs within 14 days, or face the complete withdrawal of federal funding.
The directive, outlined in a letter from the Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), comes in response to “pervasive and repugnant race-based preferences” that have turned America’s schools into indoctrination camps.
The letter explicitly warns schools, universities, and state education agencies that their reliance on DEI initiatives—which serve as racial discrimination—violates federal civil rights law.
According to the document, which cites the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Department of Education has found that DEI programs not only promote racial division but also directly contradict federal anti-discrimination laws.
The letter condemns DEI efforts as a systematic attempt to impose race-conscious policies in admissions, hiring, scholarships, and even classroom instruction.
The letter reads in part:
Relying on non-racial information as a proxy for race, and making decisions based on that information, violates the law. That is true whether the proxies are used to grant preferences on an individual basis or a systematic one.
It would, for instance, be unlawful for an educational institution to eliminate standardized testing to achieve a desired racial balance or to increase racial diversity. Other programs discriminate in less direct, but equally insidious, ways.
DEI programs, for example, frequently preference certain racial groups and teach students that certain racial groups bear unique moral burdens that others do not.
Such programs stigmatize students who belong to particular racial groups based on crude racial stereotypes. Consequently, they deny students the ability to participate fully in the life of a school.
The Department will no longer tolerate the overt and covert racial discrimination that has become widespread in this Nation’s educational institutions.
The law is clear: treating students differently on the basis of race to achieve nebulous goals such as diversity, racial balancing, social justice, or equity is illegal under controlling Supreme Court precedent.
All students are entitled to a school environment free from discrimination. The Department is committed to ensuring those principles are a reality.
Under this order, educational institutions receiving federal aid must immediately:
- Dismantle DEI offices and programming that promote race-based policies.
- End race-based hiring and admissions practices that disadvantage certain groups.
- Cease funding or collaborating with third-party organizations that push DEI initiatives.
- Halt racially segregated graduations, scholarships, and other programs under the guise of inclusion.
Failure to comply, the Department warns, will result in swift consequences—including the potential revocation of federal funding.
Students should be assessed according to merit, accomplishment, and character — not prejudged by the color of their skin.https://t.co/9FBUaiqys2 pic.twitter.com/G1XP2rPi6c
— U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) February 15, 2025
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