How to Protect Civil Rights in Schools Without a Department of Education: Fmr. Assistant Sec. Kenneth L. Marcus

American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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“Despite decades of a US Department of Education, we’re not doing any better in educating our students. If anything, we’re now doing worse ... I think the question is how the American people can best be served. The goal shouldn’t be to preserve jobs of bureaucrats. The goal shouldn’t be to preserve the status quo. We should ask, how can we best serve students and their families?”

As part of our special series on the U.S. presidential transition period, I’m sitting down with Kenneth L. Marcus, former assistant secretary of education for civil rights and the founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

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0:00.0	Despite decades of a U.S. Department of Education, we're not doing any better in educating our students, if anything we're now doing worse.
0:09.0	As part of our special series on the U.S. presidential transition period, I'm sitting down with Kenneth L. Marcus,
0:16.0	Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights in the last Trump administration.
0:21.6	He's the founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under law.
0:25.6	I think the question is how the American people can best be served.
0:30.6	The goal shouldn't be to preserve jobs of bureaucrats.
0:34.6	The goal shouldn't be to preserve the status quo. We should ask how can we best
0:41.3	serve students and their families. 2024 is an important year for civil rights in a lot of different ways.
0:50.3	This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Kellick.
0:53.3	Kenneth Marcus, such a pleasure to have you. of different ways. This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellogg.
0:59.3	Kenneth Marcus, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
1:06.2	Pleasure is mine. Good to be with you. So, Ken, you ran the Office of Civil Rights and the Department of Education. You've investigated thousands of cases.
1:11.6	Why don't you tell me what does the Office of Civil Rights do?
1:15.6	Sure, I'd be happy to.
1:16.6	It's called OCR, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, and it addresses
1:22.6	discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, discrimination, even certain patriotic
1:29.4	youth organizations.
1:31.5	And it does so to ensure that federal funds are not used by schools, colleges, or universities
1:38.2	in ways that facilitate discrimination against minority groups.
1:43.0	Well, and how important is this the function of this department, in your view,
1:49.0	sort of in retrospect, having been deep, deep in it?
1:53.0	It is an agency that affects students and families around the country. Anyone who's ever been a student in a public,
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