WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester issued the following press release:
Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.)joinedSenator Edward J.Markey(D-Mass.),top Democrat on the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee,and other colleagues in writing toLinda McMahon, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education,to condemn theagency'sefforts to gut the Equity Assistance Centers (EACs), whichprovide free technical assistance to school districts, states, and communities to prepare, adopt, and implement plans to desegregate public schools in compliance with federal civil rights law.
The Department of Education's decision todismantle the EACs with itsproposed rule,"R...