Judges block the Trump school financing cuts

On Thursday (April 24), judges blocked the threats of Trump administration to reduce federal financing of state schools, For the Associate Press. President Donald Trump sought to reduce schools with diversity, justice and inclusion programs. However, the judges ruled in favor of a lawsuit of the National Education Association and the US Union of Civil Liberties. The lawsuit accused the republican administration of granting “unconstitutional vague” recommendations and violations of the first amendment of teachers.

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What to know about Trump’s directives?

Earlier this month, he ordered the states to collect signatures from local school systems confirming the observance of civil rights laws. This includes a deviation of what the federal government calls “Dei’s illegal practice”.

Meanwhile, the directives have no force. However, they threaten the use of law enforcement agencies to deprive School of Dei practice. The administration warned schools that the continuation of such practice “violates the federal law” could lead to the trial of the US Department of Justice and the termination of federal grants and contracts.

In February, the Department issued a memo to schools and colleges, calling them to stop the practice of differentiation of people based on race. The States were granted by the end of Thursday (April 24) to submit certification of preserving their schools. However, some point out that they will not obey the order.

In addition, the fierce note of the department states that the schools contributed to the efforts of Dei, throwing a bus of white and Asian American students. It rests on the dramatic interpretation of the Supreme Court’s decision in 2023. This decision deprives the use of a race in college in all aspects of education. These aspects include work, promotion, scholarships, housing, graduates’ ceremonies and a campus.

Meanwhile, in April, a form of certification from local school districts and also sign it on behalf of the state. The letters are intended to assure that the schools are fulfilled by the VI Law on Civil Rights of 1964. Schools and states should already provide assurances of the effects in individual documents. But the new form adds the language to Dei. Language warns that the use of diversity programs for discrimination can reduce funding, penalties and other punishments. The form threatens the access of schools to the title I, the largest source of federal income for K-12 education and a lifeline for schools in low income areas.

Details of Judge’s Order Orders On Diversity Programs

On Thursday, the second judge in Maryland postponed the date of entry into force of the Dee Dee Office. The third judge in Washington, the Colombia District, has blocked another position from the entry into force.

The US District Court Judge Landi McCaferti In New Yampshire, he stated that in April a letter is not allowed to understand that the department believes that the Dei program entails, or when it believes that such programs violate the law on civil rights. “The letter does not even determine what” Dei program “,” “ McCafe wrote. The judge also stated that there was reason to believe that the actions of the department violate the rights of teachers.

“The professor manages a letter of 2025, when she expresses his opinion in her teaching that structural racism exists in America, but does not do so if she denies the existence of structural racism. This is a discrimination of the textbook,” McCafe wrote.

In the decision in Maryland, the USA Judge Stephanie Gallaher put off this memo. She said the memo was not released properly. According to the judge, it also makes teachers choose between “The trauma, providing his speech or confronted with forced execution for the exercise of his constitutional rights.” The US Teachers Federation, one of the country’s largest trade unions, has filed a lawsuit.

“The court agreed that it is a vague and clearly unconstitutional requirement – it is a serious attack on students, our profession, honest history and knowledge itself,” Randy Weingnt, President Aft said in a statement.

Also a judge in Washington, the District of Colombia, gave a preliminary ban on the certification letter. Naacp claimed that he could not identify specific Dei practices that violate the law. All three lawsuits claim that the leadership limits academic freedom. They also claim that the letter is vague and leaving schools and educators in a suspended state of what they can do. For example, this does not explain that voluntary student groups for minority students are still allowed.

What should the secretary of education say?

However, Presidential Education Minister Donald Trump Linda McMahon stands according to Trump’s directives. Earlier, she warned of possible cuts in financing if the states did not return the form until Friday. In an interview on Tuesday at the Fox Business Network network, McMuhon said he refused to sign “Risk some defense in your constituencies.” The purpose of the form is “To make sure there is no discrimination that takes place at any school,” she said.

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Associated Press staff Holly Rerome and Colin Binkley contributed to this report.