Judge blocks two Trump efforts to eliminate DEI in schools and colleges | Trump administration
On Thursday, a Federal Judge carried out two Trump management activities aimed at eliminating diversity, equality and inclusion programs in country schools and universities.
In his decision, the US regional judge in Maryland, Stephanie Gallagher, found that he violated the law when he threatened to reduce federal financing from educational institutions that continued to attempts to EDI attempts.
The guidance has been continuing since April, when the three federal judges have prevented various parts of the academic measures of the educational department.
On Thursday, the decision was followed by a summary trial case in February of the American Federation of Teachers and the American Sociology Association.
The lawsuit focuses on two educational departments that ordered schools and universities to end all “race -based decision veya or to encounter penalties until total federal loss of financing. Part of a campaign to finish Trump management, as a discrimination against white and Asian American students.
The new decision ordered the guidance to scrapped the department, the procedural requirements, but Gallagher wrote that “good or bad, prudent or stupid, fair, fair or unfair.
Gallagher, appointed by Donald Trump, rejected the government’s claim that grades serve to remind schools that discrimination is illegal.
Gallagher wrote a maritime change on how the Ministry of Education organizes educational practices and class behaviors, and has caused millions of educators to fear that their legal and even useful speeches may cause them to be punished for themselves or their schools, ”he wrote.
Democracy Forward, a legal defender company representing the plaintiffs, described it as an important victory against the DEI attack of the administration.
Skye Perryman, the president and CEO of the group, said, “Teachers threaten teachers and chaos bread in schools in America, a part of the education war of the administration and people won today,” he said.
The training department did not comment on Thursday immediately.
The conflict began with a note on February 14, and announced that any race assessment in accepting, financial assistance, recruitment or academic and student life will be accepted as a violation of the Federal Civil Rights Law.
The note significantly expanded the government’s interpretation of the 2023 Supreme Court decision, which prevents colleges from thinking about the race in acceptance decisions. The government argued that the decision was implemented not only for acceptance but also throughout the education and prohibiting all kinds of “race -based preferences ..
Craig Trainor, Deputy Deputy Deputy Office of Civil Rights Office of the Department, wrote, educational institutions, the US, ‘systemic and structural racism’ and advanced discriminatory policies and practices were built on the wrong pioneer of the students who have been toxicly vaccinated, ”he wrote.
In April, another note asked the state education agencies to approve that they did not use “illegal DEI practices .. Violators faced the risk of losing federal money and trial in accordance with the law of false claims.
In total, the guidance meant the full -scale reshaping of the government’s approach to civil rights in education. He said that these practices were their own form of discrimination and targeted policies created to address long -term racial inequalities.
The notes drew a wave of reaction from states and educational groups called illegal government censorship.
In his case, the American Federation said that the government has brought “uncertain and extremely subjective” boundaries to schools throughout the country. He said that teachers and professors have to choose between the risk of producing constitutional protected speeches and association or the risk of losing and subjecting federal funds and being subject to prosecution ”.
