The Bend-La Pine School District and every other district in the country received this letter on Feb. 14 from the new leadership at the U.S. Department of Education. In it, what can only be described as a diatribe against current federal and state laws that aim to protect disadvantaged students. Districts were given 14 days to come into full compliance with the edicts laid out in the letter or lose their federal funding. That 14 days ended Friday.
