Posted on 04/07/2025 7:31:12 AM PDT by george76
On Thursday, the federal Department of Education sent a letter to local school systems nationwide telling them that they must certify their compliance with Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights statute, which bars discrimination based on race, sex, and gender.
“The use of certain DEI practices can violate federal law … The continued use of illegal DEI practices may subject the individual or entity using such practices to serious consequences,” including the loss of federal funds and litigation, the notice to schools said.
The state of New York, for one, plans to defy the certification order.
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There's more pushback from Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago, who said the city would go to court to prevent the federal government from taking money away from Chicago schools for not complying with the DEI executive order.
“We’re not going to be intimidated by these threats,” Johnson said. “It’s just that simple. So whatever it is that this tyrant is trying to do to this city, we’re going to fight back.”
The Education Department wasn't threatening anyone. It was putting schools on notice that it would enforce the law.
The Trump administration’s memo used a broad interpretation of a Supreme Court decision in 2023 that declared race-based affirmative action programs were unlawful at colleges and universities. That ruling did not address issues involving K-12 schools.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Good for NY, as that should save the feds at least $5B per year or so.
Enjoy higher school taxes ny as Kathy soaks taxpayers to make up for the losses she will bring the state!
Maine tried, but their ugly governor gave in as will NY’s ugly governor.
Shut off the money and sue the State of NY. Halt all payments while suit is pending and under appeal. Enough already. Taxpayers do not have to mind Marxist teaching.
It doesn't say a thing about barring stupidity. Had two of them yesterday, smh.
Yeah, Mayor Johnson, you've got so much to be proud about -
abysmal schools:
"According to recent reports, less than 25% of CPS students can read at grade level, and only 18% are proficient in math. Additionally, chronic absenteeism has increased dramatically, with 39.8% of students missing 10% or more school days per year in 2023, up from 24% in 2019."
And high murder rate:
Year To Date
Shot & Killed: 91
Shot & Wounded: 309
Total Shot: 400
Total Homicides: 104
So keep fighting that "tyrant" in the White House.
I really have to wonder why anyone would even care what the Chicago schools do vis-a-vis DEI.......there’s probably not more than 6 white kids left in Chicago schools, if that many. Anything they do in that school system is DEI, having no non-diverse students left in the system.
As to the Urban schools, this is ridiculous.
“Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights statute, which bars discrimination based on race, sex, and gender.”
Exactly. NY State finances will force change away from destructive liberal policies. NY state folks will get red pilled. Win Win Win.
Time for a Smackdown from Linda McMahon.
We in NYS need to secure our elections.
We did NOT vote for this.
Americans refer to warships as SHE. Russians refer to warships as HE.
Congress needs to step up and formalize some of Trump’s cuts.
A lifetime ago I found myself learning Persian. Except for pronouns, gender is pretty much absent in English, except for words that come from Romance languages, executor/executrix etc.
But Persian doesn’t even have gender for its pronouns. I always found it funny that according to feminist ideology gender in languages somehow holds women back. If that were true, women would be the freest in the countries were Persian is spoken—Iran and Afghanistan.
Property taxes in NYS are now going up to pay for their governments ideocracy.
All we need now is to have DOGE take credit for this. That would really set off the NYS people who are ready to move forward without federal funding.
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