Biden executive order calls on Education Department to reassess anti-harassment, anti-discrimination policies
place in our schools, yet [former Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos created a double standard that allows schools to ignore reports of harassment based on sex where similar reports based on race, national origin, or religion would require an appropriate response,” Ria Tabacco Mar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project. “That is devastating for survivors of sexual harassment and assault, who are overwhelmingly women and girls.“While the DeVos rule included important provisions to promote fairness of disciplinary procedures, it offered no justification for imposing a double standard,” Mar added.