New York City is suing the Trump administration for stripping nearly $15 million in grants supporting 19 magnet schools across the city due to the schools’ policies on transgender students.
The US Department of Education’s “unprecedented actions” to illegally pull federal funds from the magnet school program, just two weeks after the start of the school year, threw “into chaos and uncertainty” the future of the schools and the plans of more than 7,000 public school students, the city says in a complaint filed in the Southern District of New York.
The administration last month announced it would discontinue five-year ...
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