On December 13, 2023, Parents Defending Education joined a coalition of organizations urging Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to deal with antisemitic material circulating in K-12 schools after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel (read the letter here).
On February 7, 2024, the Department’s Office for Civil Rights replied. Its letter describes the guidance it had already released, including a January 2023 fact sheet and a May 2023 “Dear Colleague” letter reminding schools that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires them to protect students from discrimination based on shared ancestry or ethnic traits, which includes antisemitism.
Read the Department’s full response below:
