Huh?
We’re talking about kids learning about America and its History being scrubbed ….
I’m curious of how this plays out across America ‘s School’s…
The Federal Government stepping into dictating curriculum from a Political point of view?
(The excuse given in this is that ‘White People ‘ are being discriminated against…The Education Sec. doesn’t even know how the policy works for her Dept.)
What next?
No Black History?
No Italian History?
No Native American History?
No American Women History?
Oh?
Districts ARE EXPECTED to sign off on this in TEN DAYS?
I smell a whole LOT of Federal Lawsuits….
The Trump administration threatened on Thursday to withhold federal funding from public schools unless state education officials verified the elimination of all programs that it said unfairly promoted diversity, equity and inclusion.
In a memo sent to top public education officials across the country, the Education Department said that funding for schools with high percentages of low-income students, known as Title I funding, was at risk pending compliance with the administration’s directive.
The memo included a certification letter that state and local school officials must sign and return to the department within 10 days, even as the administration has struggled to define which programs would violate its interpretation of civil rights laws. The move is the latest in a series of Education Department directives aimed at carrying out President Trump’s political agenda in the nation’s schools.
At her confirmation hearing in February, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said schools should be allowed to celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But she was more circumspect when asked whether classes that focused on Black history ran afoul of Mr. Trump’s agenda and should be banned…
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The letter indicated that the administration plans to enforce a Supreme Court decision in 2023 that declared race-based affirmative action programs were unlawful. That ruling did not address related issues in K-12 schools, but the department made clear in the letter that the administration was interpreting the Supreme Court’s decision “more broadly.”
“At its core, the test is simple,” wrote Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights at the Education Department. “If an educational institution treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person’s race, the educational institution violates the law.”
His letter drew on a lawsuit from the American Federation of Teachers, the American Sociological Association and Democracy Forward, a liberal legal group, that has asked a federal judge to pre-emptively block the administration from withholding funding from schools….
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Simultaneously, Mr. Trump has insisted that the decisions about educating the nation’s schoolchildren are best left to the states. Mr. Trump has signed an executive order to begin dismantling the Education Department, which has drawn multiple lawsuits citing federal law that only Congress can shutter the agency.
The federal government accounts for about 8 percent of local school funding, but the amounts vary widely. In Mississippi, for example, about 23 percent of school funding comes from federal sources, while just 7 percent of school funding in New York comes from Washington, according to the Pew Research Center.
Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for overhauling the federal government, called for transferring Title I programs to the Department of Health and Human Services and phasing out the federal funding stream over a 10-year period.
“Federal financial assistance is a privilege, not a right,” Mr. Trainor, said in a statement. “When state education commissioners accept federal funds, they agree to abide by federal anti-discrimination requirements.”….
Note….
Red States get MUCH MORE Federal Education Money than Blue state’s…..
Poorer School Districts ARE MINORITY places…
Hmmmm?
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