On July 23, 1792 Exchange filed a comment urging the Department of Education to finalize its proposed rule rescinding the Equity Assistance Center Program regulations. Congress created the program in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for one purpose: helping school districts desegregate, which it defined as assigning students without regard to race. By 2016 the Department had renamed the Desegregation Assistance Centers as “Equity” Assistance Centers and read gender identity into a statute about sex, a reading a federal court struck down in 2025. Desegregation was a fixed command to stop sorting children by race. “Equity” became a blank check, and in February 2025 the Department cut $33 million in grants funding DEI, Critical Race Theory, and gender-identity training for school boards.
We support the repeal because we document where this pipeline ends. 1792 Exchange’s Corporate Bias Ratings map ideological capture at more than 4,500 of America’s largest employers as of August 5, 2026, in the hiring mandates and speech codes that arrive with each graduating class. What begins in the classroom ends in the boardroom. We urge the Department to finalize the rule without delay and hold the program to the promise of 1964: every American child assigned and taught without regard to race.