The first university has admitted to race-based hiring
by Scott Douglas Gerber in The Hill

Money quote: After Students for Fair Admissions was decided, [Interim President Paul Mahoney] wrote, the university had received new guidance that “commits us to cease using race as a criterion for employment.” Of course, the university cannot “cease” using race in employment decisions unless it was previously using race in employment decisions. In short, UVA has finally admitted what the Justice Department suspected all along — making Virginia the first major college or university to proffer such an admission. (Predictably, the standstill agreement includes the standard boilerplate language that the university “expressly denies liability.”)

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‘Queen’ Michelle Reid and Fairfax County’s $4 billion school bullies
by Stephanie Lundquist-Arora in The Washington Times

Money quote: Since 2019, FCPS’s leaders have spent $44 million on legal fees. At least some of this money, coming from its massive $4 billion annual budget, is being used to bully parents, children and community members who are inconvenient for their image or agenda. As Kate (an alias for a victim of an alleged sexual assault in Fairfax County Public Schools] said, “The school district’s traditional defense whenever anyone speaks up is to scream that they’re lying or fraudulent. Then, they hire big law defense firms billing millions in taxpayer dollars to crush the everyday person and polish their own image through public relations.

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