While such educational lions such as Columbia and Dartmouth as well as elite law firms have withered under the bullying of the Trump administration, it does my heart good to see an unsung institution like the New York State Education Department stand up for principle.
The New York Times published this rare bit of good news on Friday:
Daniel Morton-Bentley, the deputy commissioner for legal affairs at the state education agency in New York, wrote in a letter to federal education officials that “we understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion.’”
“But there are no federal or state laws prohibiting the principles of D.E.I.,” Mr. Morton-Bentley wrote, adding that the federal government has not defined what practices it believes violate civil rights protections.
