Posted on 09/18/2020 1:42:18 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says she'll withhold millions of federal dollars from Connecticut schools that won't withdraw from an athletic conference that allows transgender students to enter competitions based on their chosen gender.
Students and parents have argued the some transgender students, particularly boys who identify as girls, have dominated sports like track and field, limiting playing time and opportunities for college scholarships.
The move by the Education Department would withhold about $18 million intended to help schools desegregate, according to The New York Times.
The department's Office for Civil Rights has warned officials at three Connecticut school districts several times that it will not release the grant money as planned on Oct. 1, unless they withdraw from the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference over its transgender policies.
Officials with the conference, which governs high school athletics in the state, say their policies conform to Connecticut law.
The $18 million, which represents the remainder from five-year grants worth roughly $45 million, is earmarked for districts in New Haven, Hartford and southeast Connecticut that operate magnet schools under a federally approved, voluntary desegregation plan, the Times also reports.
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About time.........
Excellent.
YES!
I dunno. I was enjoying watching Title IX getting kicked in the teeth.
The feminazis don’t know whether to s**t or go blind.
Liberal judge to stop this in 3...2...1...
I guess I’m the only one old enough to remember when the DEms started pushing Federal funding of schools - and it was said repeatedly -
“We would never use the threat of withholding funding as a weapon to force compliance with Federal dictate”?
The hot topic then was desegregation of school in the NE US - like Boston....
Different shoe, same money club....
Yes!! Elections matter...a LOT!
Go, Betsy!
This is long overdue.
This is how you play the game. The Republicans are finally learning...
Only women bleed
Alice Cooper
WINNING! Go, Betsy! Go, Betsy!
Dems know another “game” that counter, Federal Judges/courts.
Let them enforce their rulings...
It all comes down to choices. Connecticut, in its fantasy world, can choose to let the boys unfairly compete against the girls and DeVos can choose to withhold taxpayer money. Seems like both sides should be happy with their choices.
Let’s go all the way and make sports 100% non-sex-segregated and entirely based upon stats! Total equality, I say.
>>Let’s go all the way and make sports 100% non-sex-segregated and entirely based upon stats! Total equality, I say.<<
That is the obvious next step. What will the trannies do when they “win” and there are no more female sports?
We can honestly say it is for gender equality.
I’m quite serious in saying the the Republicans should do absolutely nothing, and encourage mixed-sex sports on the grounds of equality. Let the system destroy itself until the whiners beg for mercy.
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