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No left-of-center outlet in our set has published this story.
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IRS targets private schools that help racial minority students
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations that could strip tax-exempt status from up to 18,000 schools that use race-based admissions or preference criteria. The proposal states that institutions continuing such practices would no longer receive federal tax-exempt status, while an equity advocate and a group representing academics said the move punishes schools for addressing barriers to opportunity and described it as turning civil-rights law against those it was meant to protect. The proposal was cited in connection with a lawsuit against Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii over its preference for Native Hawaiian students.
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Trump admin targets tax-exempt status at private colleges — threatening a key tax break for donations
CNBC (and NPR, briefly) frame the proposal primarily through its financial impact on donors, scholarships, and taxpayers, citing tax experts and an equity advocate (Denise Forte of EdTrust) who warns the rule punishes schools for 'recognizing barriers to opportunity.' NPR's short piece frames the rule as targeting schools that 'help racial minority students.'
Trump administration proposes stripping tax-exempt status from schools using race-based programs
Fox News, Daily Caller, and Washington Times frame the rule as correcting 'discrimination against white students in favor of students of color' and 'rooting out diversity initiatives,' emphasizing the administration's rationale and including pushback from the AAUP calling the move an 'affirmative attempt to turn civil-rights law against the very people it was enacted to protect.'
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