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New York State officials have told the Trump administration that they would not follow their demands to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion in public schools, despite the dangers of administration to end federal education funding.
The state education department’s lawyer and deputy commissioner Daniel Morton-Bentley said in a letter to the federal education department on Friday that the state officials do not believe that the federal agency has the right to make such demands.
“We understand that the current administration wants to censor anything, which ends diversity, equity and inclusion,” he wrote. “But there are no federal or state law restricting the principles of DEI.”
Morton-Bentley also wrote that the state officials were “unknown” from any authority, the federal education department has to demand that the state agrees to interpret the decisions of the court or to end the funds without a formal administrative process.
The US Education Department did not immediately respond to the email requests for the comment.
The Trump administration on Thursday ordered the C -12 schools to be certified within nationwide 10 days that they are following federal civil rights laws and abolishing any discriminatory DEI practices as a condition to get federal funds.
“Federal financial assistance is a privilege, not a right,” said Craig Trainer, Acting Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights. He said that many schools have provoked their legal obligations, “to discriminate against a group of Americans using DEI programs.”
The demand for certification asked state and school leaders to sign “reminding of legal obligations”, which is an air -conditioned on compliance with the federal civil rights laws, accepting their federal funds. It also demands compliance with several pages of legal analysis written by the administration.
Demand is particularly threatened with title I funding, which sends billions of dollars per year to US schools and targets low -income areas.
Morton-Bentley has written that the State Education Department has already certified the federal government on several occasions that it is following the title VI of the 1964 civil rights Act, recently in January. He said that the federal department is based on its demands to abolish DEI programs on a faulty legal interpretation.
He said, “Given the fact that you are already occupied by Nysed by Nysed that this title will comply with VI, no other certification will be the upcoming,” he wrote.
He also stated that the administration is earlier from a “sudden change” taken by the Trump administration, which cited the comments made by the then Education Secretary Betsy Davos in 2020 that diversity and inclusion were “the cornerstals of high organizational performance”. He wrote that the administration has not given any clarification as to why this situation changed.
Critics of certification demand said that it was disputed with the promise of Trump’s promise to return education in schools and states.
The threat of financial sanctions is similar to those who have taken advantage of the colleges in an attempt to tighten protests against Israel that it understands the antisement.
The New York State has refused to follow a demand by the Trump administration by the Trump administration to close a program to close a program for large -scale transit, which is accompanied by high tolls on cars driven in Manhattan.
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