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Josh Kaul Joins Lawsuit Against DOE
Wisconsin is among the states suing President Trump over his effort to make sure colleges and universities across the country are not discriminating against students based on their race.
Attorney General Josh Kaul on Thursday joined 17 other states in suing the Department of Education over changes to the Integrated Postsecondary Education System.
IPEDS is the primary way that colleges and universities track and report everything from enrollments, graduation rates and financial aid.
Last August President Trump ordered schools to add other information in an attempt to make sure that colleges and universities are following the rules laid-out after the US Supreme Court ruled that race cannot be used as a factor in college admissions.
“The Trump administration has rushed forward with an effort to advance an ideological agenda without sufficiently accounting for the potential consequences from this rushed effort,” Kaul said. “The new data requirements, which don’t take student privacy or the importance of getting reliable data seriously enough, should not stand.”
The lawsuit argues that it will take colleges and universities months to gather the new data. They were supposed to report the new information next week. But the lawsuit is not just about time.
“Moreover, the coalition argues the new data demands jeopardize student privacy and could lead to individuals’ being identified. Many institutions have data protection obligations to their students, which are placed at risk by the Administration’s new IPEDS demands,” Kaul’s office added in a statement.
President Trump has said the IPEDS changes are necessary to ensure equal treatment to all students.
In addition to Wisconsin, Democratic attorneys generals in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaiʻi, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington have signed-on to the case.
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