Chicago Private Schools Discriminated for Years to Further DEI and Now the IRS Wants Its Money Back
For example, The Latin School of Chicago tells parents that its nearly $50K tuition only covers 85 percent of the school’s overhead, and that giving pays for one of every five school days. Yet the US Department of the Treasury is moving to kill the tax exemption entirely for schools like Latin and Francis Parker, institutions which are “flagrantly violating the law, by their own admission,” according to a local philanthropist with close ties to the Chicago private school community.
The proposed regulation (REG-119986-25) observes that a private school is not operated for charitable purposes if it “adopts, maintains, or enforces any policy or practice that discriminates on the basis of race, color, or national or ethnic origin” in any educational policy, admissions policy, scholarship program, athletic program, “or other school-administered or school-supported program.”
“The operative concept here is ‘any purpose,’ and good intentions are not an excuse,” the donor suggests. The proposed regulation suggests that racial discrimination in education is against fundamental public policy “regardless of the intent behind it,” including where it is “defended as serving remedial or diversity-related objectives.”
18,000 schools are in scope
