WASHINGTON, July 23 - The U.S. Education Department said on Thursday it was removing several \"disparate impact\" regulations, which for decades have prohibited policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Education Department will no longer consider school policies that disproportionately harm one group of students as discriminatory unless the discrimination is intentional, rescinding a decades-long standard for civil rights enforcement.