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#NY public schools tell #Trump administration they won’t comply with #DEI order

By DAVE COLLINS
Updated 3:14 PM EDT, April 5, 2025

Excerpt: "The demand specifically threatens #TitleI funding, which sends billions of dollars a year to America’s schools and targets #LowIncome areas.

"Morton-Bentley wrote that the state Education Department has already certified to the federal government on multiple occasions that it is complying with #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct of 1964, most recently in January. He said the federal department is basing its demands to end DEI programs on a faulty legal interpretation.

"'Given the fact that you are already in possession of guarantees by NYSED that it has and will comply with Title VI, no further certification will be forthcoming,' he wrote.

"He also said the administration’s stance is an 'abrupt shift' from the one taken by the first Trump administration, citing comments in 2020 made by then-U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that #diversity and #inclusion were 'cornerstones of high organizational performance.' He wrote the administration has provided no explanation of why it changed positions."

apnews.com/article/dei-trump-s
#NewYorkResists #Resistance #USPol #SeeYouInCourt #HandsOffEducation #Resistance

Children and their guardians leave P.S. 64 in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)
AP News · NY public schools tell Trump administration they won't comply with DEI orderBy Dave Collins
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Still Mad About CD Prices

Favorite images from the #HandsOff protest in western #rural #red #NY state. This was a supporter's car :)

The protest/rally had a median age of at least 60, though a few college students also showed up. We're an aging college town in the country. Also extremely Republican, as districts go. More people showed up to this than to any event I remember from the 2016-2020 era. This means about 100 people, maybe.

Sticker on the gas cap cover of an orange-red car: a cartoonish black cat with round, possibly startled eyes, holding a butcher knife in its mouth
Photo of another sticker on the same orange-red car: Be a lilith not an eve
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Steve Thompson PhD

NY public schools tell Trump administration they won’t comply with DEI order

apnews.com/article/dei-trump-s

New York state officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with its demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices in public schools, despite the administration’s threats to terminate federal education funding.

#NY #Trump DEI #education #press

Children and their guardians leave P.S. 64 in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)
AP News · NY public schools tell Trump administration they won't comply with DEI orderBy Dave Collins
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Melissa

Looks good! #journalism #NY
panel inc Hell Gate hellgatenyc.com and The City thecity.nyc

"Join us for an insightful discussion with industry leaders on Thursday, April 10, at 6:30 PM at SVA Theatre for The New Independents: Journalism Innovators + Entrepreneurs Panel with the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment"

eventbrite.com/e/the-new-indep

Hell GateHell GateWe are a subscriber-funded, worker-owned news outlet about New York City, named for the city's sturdiest (and handsomest) bridge over its most treacherous currents.
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Nonilex

More of this please:

The #NY State #Education Dept issued a defiant response to #Trump’s threats to pull federal #funding from #PublicSchools over #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs, a remarkable departure from recent conciliatory approaches of other institutions. A day earlier, the federal govt issued a memo to education ofcls across the nation, telling them to confirm the elimination of all programs it argues *unfairly* promote #DEI.

#law #democracy #FreeSpeech
nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/poli

A 12th grade Black studies classroom in Harlem, last month.
The New York Times · New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. OrderBy Troy Closson
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Comic Crusaders

WILLIE COLÓN’S GUISANDO: DOING A JOB RETURNS TO VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 50 YEARS
The third collaboration from pioneering salsa duo Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe will debut on 180-gram vinyl and hi-res digital, featuring the classics “No Me Den Candela,” “I Wish I Had a Watermelon” and “Guisando”...
comiccrusaders.com/editorial/w
#salsa #vinyl #music #ny #fania #hector lavoe #willie colon

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MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:

youtube.com/watch?v=DRNEWddQ2G

#DemocracyNow 🚨🚨 #ALERT 🚨🚨

First they came for...

#ICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in #FarmRaid Near #NY Home of Border 'Czar' #ShrekHoman

#AbolishICE

HANDCUFFING KIDS! #WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!? These kids and their mum are in a family detention centre in #Texas.

5.23 min. mark: Amy mentions protest on Saturday 2pm EST.

#FascistUSA #AbolishICE #NY #StopDeportations #NYFarmRaid
#StopTheKidnappings #DueProcess

YouTubeICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near NY Home of Border Czar Tom HomanBy Democracy Now!
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