In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a “Black Students Success Plan,” after a complaint that the program discriminated against students of other races.
In July, the department ruled five Virginia school districts had violated another civil rights law, intended to protect women and girls from sex discrimination and harassment, by allowing transgender students to use school facilities based on gender identity, not biological sex.
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And just last week, the Trump administration announced a similar finding against Denver Public Schools, warning the district to, among other things, “adopt biology-based definitions for the words ‘male’ and ‘female'” within 10 days or risk losing federal funding.
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