U.S. Government Moves to Cut Funding for Native Hawaiian and Minority-Serving Higher Education Programs
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U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced that the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel confirmed that race-based eligibility criteria for federal education funding are unconstitutional, leading to the winding down of related programs to ensure fairness and merit-based support.
Topics:nationeducation#constitutionality#education#federal-funding#minority-serving-institutions#olc-opinion#race-based-programs
- U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Statement on the Office of Legal Counsel’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of Race-Based Higher Education Grant Programs U.S. Department of Education (.gov)
- Trump Administration Threatens Native Hawaiian Higher Ed Programs Honolulu Civil Beat
- U.S. DOE intends to halt federal funding for Native Hawaiian/minority-serving programs KITV
- Press Release: Senator Alex Padilla Criticizes Trump Administration's Actions Against Minority-Serving Institutions Quiver Quantitative
- PRESIDENT: Urgent Update on Federal Funding for Native Hawaiian/Minority Serving Programs University of Hawaii System
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