“End-DEI” Portal Created to Encourage Whistleblowers in Schools

This past Thursday, February 27th, the U.S. Department of Education launched EndDEI.Ed.Gov, a public portal for parents, students, teachers, and the broader community to submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly-funded K-12 schools.

This strategy will help make it easier for the Trump administration to identify schools receiving federal funding who may be violating the False Claims Act, which is a new contract clause requiring entities that receive federal funding to certify they are not promoting or engaging in “illegal DEI.”

The Department of Education quoted Tiffany Justice, founder of the conservative nonprofit Mom’s for Liberty, who stated “parents, now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools.”

Under the False Claims Act, private individuals cannot sue a school, however they can submit information to the Federal government. This private individual is known as a qui tam relator and could be an internal whistleblower.

If a school receiving $20 million annually in federal funding, has certified that it will comply with federal anti-discrimination and civil rights laws, but has been found to violate the laws by showing preferences for a protected class, and excludes other groups, could violate the False Claims Act.

If you don’t have data, all you have is an opinion.