Equity Assistance Center Program Rescission (Civil Rights Act Title IV)
Current understanding
The U.S. Department of Education has proposed rescinding the regulations governing the Equity Assistance Center (EAC) Program, a Title IV Civil Rights Act technical-assistance program that has historically supported school districts in addressing desegregation and equity issues related to race, sex, national origin, and religion. The Department states the rescission would give it greater flexibility to align technical assistance activities with current administration priorities. Practical effects on school districts and affected student populations depend on how — or whether — technical assistance continues under a deregulated framework; the program’s statutory authority remains, but service scope, criteria, and grantee selection would no longer be governed by the existing regulations.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-24 — Rescinding Portions of the Department of Education Title VI Regulations To Align With the Statutory Text and Conform to Executive Order 14281: cross-connection with ed-title-vi-disparate-impact-rescission: Both actions reduce ED’s civil-rights infrastructure for addressing racial disparities in federally assisted education programs. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-06-25 — Rescinding the Equity Assistance Center Program Regulations: cross-connection with patriotic-education-federal-funding: Both actions reshape federal influence over school curricula and equity-related technical assistance, one by rescinding desegregation/equity support regulations and the other by conditioning federal funding on prescribed civic education content. (novelty: 2)