Education Union Pushes Back Against Threat Over DEI Programs (2)

A “dear colleague” letter sent to schools and colleges by the Department of Education threatening to cut off federal funding if they continued to maintain DEI programs is unconstitutional, a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court says.

The complaint, filed by the National Education Association and its state affiliate in New Hampshire, alleges that the letter “radically resets ED’s longstanding position on civil rights laws that guarantee equality and inclusion and impermissibly infringes on the authority of states and school districts over public education as well as the First Amendment rights of educators and students.”

The complaint says that “education ...