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Earlier, we wrote about Biden administration rules that impeded charter schools, reinforcing the power of left-wing teachers’ unions. Even the liberal Washington Post, which has not endorsed a Republican for president since 1952, criticized those rules as harmful and unjustified, as did non-partisan think-tanks such as the Fordham Institute.
I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request about those rules and the influences that led to them, on behalf of Liberty Unyielding and the Bader Family Foundation.
But the Education Department did not provide any records in response to our FOIA request. Nor did it comply with FOIA’s requirement that it provide a substantive response to my FOIA request within 20 working days after it received the request. (Within that 20 day period, “the agency must at least inform the requester of the scope of the documents that the agency will produce, as well as the scope of the documents that the agency plans to withhold under any FOIA exemptions,” according to the courts.)
So we sued the Education Department to force it to produce the records we requested. The Education Department has now been producing records for five months, processing them at the rate of 500 pages or more per month. But many of the pages are entirely redacted in each monthly production. This month, the redactions have become extreme: It totally redacted all but four of the 574 pages it processed in October, as you can see from the records it produced, which are available at this link.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2023/...-but-four-pages-redacted-in-574-page-release/
I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request about those rules and the influences that led to them, on behalf of Liberty Unyielding and the Bader Family Foundation.
But the Education Department did not provide any records in response to our FOIA request. Nor did it comply with FOIA’s requirement that it provide a substantive response to my FOIA request within 20 working days after it received the request. (Within that 20 day period, “the agency must at least inform the requester of the scope of the documents that the agency will produce, as well as the scope of the documents that the agency plans to withhold under any FOIA exemptions,” according to the courts.)
So we sued the Education Department to force it to produce the records we requested. The Education Department has now been producing records for five months, processing them at the rate of 500 pages or more per month. But many of the pages are entirely redacted in each monthly production. This month, the redactions have become extreme: It totally redacted all but four of the 574 pages it processed in October, as you can see from the records it produced, which are available at this link.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2023/...-but-four-pages-redacted-in-574-page-release/
