REUTERS — The American Bar Association will require law schools to educate students about bias, racism and cross-cultural competency, possibly as soon as the next academic year. The ABA’s House of Delegates on Monday approved changes to its law school accreditation standards, including a mandate that law schools provide bias training when students began their legal studies and at least once more before they graduate. No one spoke in opposition to the changes and they were overwhelmingly adopted by the ABA policymaking body. In June of 2020, 150 law deans signed a letter urging the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar — which oversees the law school accreditation standards — to consider such a requirement as part of a wider anti-racism movement in legal education. Such widespread support among deans on any issue is unusual, said National Conference of Bar Examiners trustee Hulett “Bucky” Askew in his comments to the House of Delegates.