The American Federation of Teachers sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over a warning to schools that if they have a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program, they could lose federal funds.
Litigationarguing that the February 14th “Dear Colleague” letter of the Department of Education, filed in federal court in Baltimore, is unconstitutional and violates First Amendment's free speech protection.
“The fact that racism was written in US law is a historical fact that cannot be erased by a letter from a dear colleague,” the complaint states. “Black Americans were enslaved to the law, which prevented Black Americans from owning their property, attending public schools and voting. This is, by definition, a legal structure that imposes differences based on race. is.”
“Therefore, it is impossible to give naked factual information about history without acknowledging structural racism, but by doing so, it appears that it now constitutes illegal discrimination in the eyes of the Ministry of Education. “I'll continue.”
A spokesperson for the Department of Education said the department had not commented on the pending lawsuit.
The Teachers Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday with the Maryland and the American Sociological Association. They are represented by the Democracy Forward Foundation, a left-leaning organisation that supports more than a dozen cases against the new administration.
The case was randomly assigned to Trump's appointee, District Judge Stephanie Gallagher.
Department of Education's scrutiny suggests that as the Trump administration is trying to broadly end federal support for the diversity program, DEI leaders spur and spur the wave of lawsuits. Last week, a judge indefinitely blocked some of Trump's executive orders that attempted to end DEI-related contracts across the executive branch.
A letter from February 14 warned that the administration will begin assessing K-12 school and university compliance in two weeks, and the Supreme Court decision on university admissions will be for fair admission as legal justification. It pointed out that it would break the positive behavior of students.
“SFFA dealt with hospitalization decisions, but the Supreme Court holdings are more widely applied. At its heart, the test is simple: an educational institution treats another person for that person's race and educational institutions violate the law when dealing with people of different races,” the letter said.
But the new lawsuit argues that the administration misrepresents the High Court's ruling in its quest to crack down on Day.
“This letter is an illegal attempt by this administration to impose a specific view on how schools should be run as if they were law, but it is not,” the lawsuit states. It's there.
“The requirements for Title VI have not changed and despite the department's views on the issue, the Supreme Court's 2023 decision is neither meaningful,” he continued.
