More colleges no longer need to show the Department of Education years of race and gender admissions data, a federal judge ruled, expanding to private institutions a prior order blocking the new survey.
US District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV had previously excused public schools in 17 states from having to respond to the agency’s Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement survey because there was no excuse for rolling it out in a “rushed and chaotic manner” to keep with President Trump’s 120-day deadline.
The ruling Friday provides the same relief to 178 colleges represented by seven university coalitions that intervened ...