The U.S. Department of Education is ending $350 million of discretionary funding to several grant programs at minority-serving institutions across the country, claiming that they are discriminatory, according to a Wednesday announcement.

Minority-serving institutions are colleges and universities that enroll a high percentage of minority students and thus receive federal funding, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) or Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI).

“Discrimination based upon race or ethnicity has no place in the United States. To further our commitment to ending discrimination in all forms across federally supported programs, the Department will no longer award Minority-Serving Institution grants that discriminate by restricting eligibility to institutions t

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