Teacher Unions Sue Education Department Over Diversity Guidance

Three national teacher unions are challenging Trump administration guidance issued earlier this month to comply with nondiscrimination laws, alleging it’s seeking to “upend” diversity in school instruction.

The unions allege a Feb. 14 letter issued by the US Department of Education suggests that “a wide variety of core instruction, activities, and programs that schools, from pre-kindergarten through post-graduate education, use to teach and support their students now constitute illegal discrimination.”

“It is not clear how a school could teach a fulsome U.S. History course without teaching about slavery, the Missouri Compromise, the Emancipation Proclamation, the forced relocation of Native American ...