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ED FOIA Manager
FOIA Service Center

Good Morning Clark Dartunorro,

Thank you for your FOIA request dated 01/31/2018 and received in our office on 02/02/2018. You are requesting:

"All emails to, from, or copied to Secretary Betsy DeVos (or other email addresses used by Betsy DeVos) containing the at least one of the following non-case-sensitive key-strings "title xi", "school choice", "sexual assault", "voucher", "intelligent design", "evolution", "creationism", "Christian", "HBCU", "public school", "minority" and/or "diversity", from January 20, 2017 to Present Day."

In an effort to better serve you and produce documents, we would like for you to narrow the request because it may potentially be unduly burdensome. Please state specifically what you are seeking so that we may conduct thorough searches of our records and databases. You have ten days from the date of this email to respond. The due date for a response is March 3, 2018. Thank you.
Best regards,

Michelle L. Smith
Program Manager
Senior FOIA Analyst
FOIA Service Center, OM/OCPO
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Ave. SW, Room 216-52
Washington, DC 20202-4510
FOIA Hotline (202) 401-8365

Good Morning Clark Dartunorro,

The search terms:

"title xi", "school choice", "sexual assault", "voucher", "intelligent design", "evolution", "creationism", "Christian", "HBCU", "public school", "minority" and/or "diversity"

may potentially return a query of more than 200,000 pages. “Title XI” is a common term here at the Department as well as “voucher,” “public school” and “minority.” Documents within the Department’s databases as well as OutLook emails contain a plethora of repetitive words such as these due to the fact that these terms relate heavily to the programs that the Department manages on a daily basis. Please kindly state specifically what you are seeking so that we may conduct thorough searches of our databases. In an effort to perform a good search, we rely on keywords such as those that you provided. However, this is too many keywords to be searching for without a clearly identified topic or subject related to these keywords. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. I look forward to a response from you by March 4, 2018.
Best regards,
Michelle

Good morning,

FOIA request #18-00974-F was administratively closed on March 15th 2018 because we did not receive clarification from the requester by the due date.
Best,

ED FOIA MANAGER (Mary)