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Two Virginia school districts sue Education Dept. in fight over gender policies
The Washington Post ^ | August 29, 2025 | Karina Elwood

Posted on 08/29/2025 12:22:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Arlington Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools sued the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to bar it from freezing funds to the Virginia district amid a fight over a policy supportive of transgender students.

Arlington Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools filed lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Education on Friday, seeking to bar the federal agency from freezing funds to the districts in response to an ongoing debate over a policy supportive of transgender students.

The move is the latest in a fight between the Education Department and five Northern Virginia school districts over policies that allow students to use facilities like bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.

Earlier this month, school officials in Arlington, as well as Alexandria, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties, declined to comply with a call from the Education Department to rescind the gender policies after an investigation determined they violate Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination.

In response, the Education Department said it would start the process to “suspend or terminate” funding from the five districts. The following week, the department announced it placed the school districts on “high-risk” status, which would make it harder for the systems to receive future federal funds.

“States and school districts cannot openly violate federal law while simultaneously receiving federal funding with no additional scrutiny. The Northern Viriginia[sic] School Divisions that are choosing to abide by woke gender ideology in place of federal law must now prove they are using every single federal dollar for a legal purpose,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon wrote in a statement.

The new complaints from the Arlington and Fairfax school district, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, seek immediate relief from the court to...


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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: alexandria; fairfaxcounty; genderidentity; loudouncounty; northernvirginia; nova; princewilliamcounty; transgenderpolicy; xyxx

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1 posted on 08/29/2025 12:22:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Evil.


2 posted on 08/29/2025 12:28:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

But transgender students will turn out to be rapists and mass shooters.


3 posted on 08/29/2025 12:48:48 PM PDT by reasonisfaith
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

84% of parents disagree with the school’s policies

but what do they know

as mcawful said parents have no say


4 posted on 08/29/2025 12:55:54 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do these school districts think they are entitled to Federal money, i.e. the country’s tax dollars?


5 posted on 08/29/2025 1:26:16 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: joshua c

“84% of parents disagree with the school’s policies.”

We have these things called “elections”.

L


6 posted on 08/29/2025 1:30:22 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All the Democrats’ lawsuits, activist judges issuing injunctions and getting sued and ex-government workers suing the government are doing is making lawyers richer and richer


7 posted on 08/29/2025 1:49:47 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This proves the push to mutilate and psychologically/ medically abuse children is all for money.


8 posted on 08/30/2025 12:11:50 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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