Interesting article in the Washington Post:  U.S. Education Officials Question Diversity Standard; Critics Say the ABA’s New Criterion Promotes Racial Quotas at Law Schools, by Valerie Strauss

The Education Department’s general counsel is challenging the ABA’s new standard on diversity in enrollment and hiring, which calls for the law schools it accredits to take "concrete action" to attract more minority students, faculty and staff….

Some Education Department officials said the ABA’s new standard effectively promotes quotas and could force schools in states that ban affirmative action to break the law. Some civil rights organizations said the new standards did not go far enough "to stem the decline" in minority enrollments in law schools. ABA officials say the department is misinterpreting the standard and pushing an anti-affirmative action agenda while violating its own procedures for reauthorizing the ABA as an accrediting agency.