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OCR: Reducing Protection for the Accused
Dissent about the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights' (OCR's) "Dear Colleague" letter continues around the country. Most recently, North Carolina-based John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy reporter Duke Cheston weighed in with a piece called "." Cheston hits the nail on the head:
[OCR's] new rules were touted as a way of promoting "enhanced equity." But, in reality, the new rules rather inequitably reduce the protections of those who are accused ...
Cheston also examines how the Dear Colleague letter is adversely affecting the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
the article at the Pope Center's website!
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