Disparate Impact

Apr 9, 2013

Perez, the Prez, and Preferences

Filed Under: Disparate Impact, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Office of Federal Contract Compliance and Programs, Thomas Perez

With the enormous powers he would wield to expand racial and gender preferences in a large sector of employment, Tom Perez’s nomination as Secretary of Labor provides an opportunity to shed light on disturbing civil rights-enforcement practices.[i] Given their record, …

Jul 31, 2012

Have You Slugged Your Kid Today?

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by Ken Masugi / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Disparate Impact, Frederick Douglas, Race-Based School Discipline

If you haven’t, then someone else’s kid may do it for you. That most distinguished Marylander, anti-slavery orator and author Frederick Douglass, would be disgusted at newly-approved Maryland State school discipline policies that forbid measures having a “disproportionate impact on …