In recent weeks, the U.S. Education Department has announced that it is investigating Case Western Reserve University, North Carolina State University at Raleigh and school districts in Levittown (N.Y.), Montclair (N.J.) and Lakeside (Calif.) for alleged bias under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The department releases some information weekly about new investigations, but it doesn’t say why the schools and districts are being probed. Many of the recent investigations have related to alleged antisemitic discrimination.
Case Western Reserve told JNS that it was aware of the investigation, which it said was based on allegations from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. (CAIR, which blamed Israel for being attacked on Oct. 7, was initially part of the White House national strategy on antisemitism, but was later removed from the whole-of-government plan.)
CAIR’s Cleveland chapter stated that it had asked the federal government to investigate the private university for “allegedly targeting and intimidating students involved in Students for Justice in Palestine.”
The student group has frequently been accused of Jew-hatred, and some states have banned it from public campuses. Some have sued to be reinstated.
JNS sought comment from the other four schools and districts that the Education Department is investigating.
Mick Kulikowski, a North Carolina State University spokesman, told JNS that it doesn’t comment on legal issues. The Education Department website indicates that the probe of the public school and of the Montclair and Lakeside districts relate to “national origin discrimination involving religion.”
