Education Secretary Miguel Cardona appeared before a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday to testify about the president's fiscal 2025 budget request for the Education Department. | Susan Walsh/APIn a roughly three-minute-long opening statement in front of Senate appropriators, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona mentioned nearly every major issue in higher education today — except campus unrest.
“You have more immediate means at your disposal. For instance, removing federal funds from institutions that get federal funds ... if they’re in violation of Title VI,” Sen. told Cardona during a Tuesday Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing. “Are you intending to do that?” Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the federal anti-discrimination law that bars discrimination based on shared ancestry, ethnic characteristics or national origin.of colleges and universities for not cracking down hard enough of antisemitism.