WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats have relaunched an effort to ban legacy admissions at colleges after the Department of Education on Tuesday announced a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s use of the practice. The legislation, spearheaded by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., aims to prohibit universities…Read More
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