ACLU sues Defense Department school system over banning race- and gender-related books

This all began on April 3rd when the Department of Education sent letters to every K-12 state education agency like Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction. The letter requiring those agencies to certify their compliance with their anti-discrimination obligations in order to continue receiving federal financial assistance. The Fed said too many schools are violating these obligations by using DEI programs to discriminate against one group of Americans to favor. What are your thoughts about this from the federal government? I think that's insane. This mother at MPS's McDowell Montessori was reluctant to show her face, but she's concerned. DAEI helps *** lot of people in schools. It helps *** lot of people, period. MPS is the largest district in the state and has *** department of equity, Access and inclusion. Meantime, the state told the feds this request is unnecessarily redundant and intimidates school districts by threatening to withhold. Critical education funding. Wisconsin reports $841 million for schools each year comes from the federal government. Some of that money helps educate students with disabilities like Jessica Howard's son, who has an individualized education program. He's already has like *** learning disability and sensory processing disorder. If that would affect my son in an IEP program, I'd be very disappointed and upset with that because he requires. That additional help. She also worries about his classmates. One thing that we definitely should not be cutting is anything to do with our children and education for DEI programs. Yeah, we can't cut that. They, that's not even if it wasn't for children, it's for everybody. Everybody needs to be included.

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the Department of Defense바카라 게임 웹사이트�s school system for children of military families, asserting that the removal of race- and gender-related books and curricula violated students바카라 게임 웹사이트� First Amendment protections against government censorship.The suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in northeast Virginia said the Department of Defense Education Activity nixed educational materials in line with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump in January.Trump's order forbids the school system from 바카라 게임 웹사이트�promoting, advancing, or otherwise inculcating ... un-American, divisive, discriminatory, radical, extremist, and irrational theories바카라 게임 웹사이트� connected to race and gender.Books ranging from Harper Lee's 바카라 게임 웹사이트� To Kill a Mockingbird 바카라 게임 웹사이트� and Khaled Hosseini's 바카라 게임 웹사이트� The Kite Runner 바카라 게임 웹사이트� to 바카라 게임 웹사이트� Hillbilly Elegy 바카라 게임 웹사이트� by Vice President JD Vance have since been stripped from some schools' library shelves, according to the ACLU. Authorities within the school system also purged curricular materials such as a chapter on sexuality and gender for an Advanced Placement psychology course, and readings about immigration for fourth- and fifth-grade classes, according to the suit.The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 12 students from six families who attend schools in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy and Japan.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I have three daughters, and they, like all children, deserve access to books that both mirror their own life experiences and that act as windows that expose them to greater diversity,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Natalie Tolley, a plaintiff on behalf of her three children, said in a statement published by the ACLU of Virginia.Outside of changes to the department's prekindergarten through 12th-grade educational programs, there have also been shifts at military colleges and universities. Roughly 380 books were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy바카라 게임 웹사이트�s library in April.Officials have also been told to assess the stacks at Army and Air Force libraries to find books related to diversity, equity and inclusion.A spokesperson with the Defense Department's school system said the institution does not comment on ongoing litigation.

The suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in northeast Virginia said the Department of Defense Education Activity nixed educational materials in line with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump in January.

Trump's order forbids the school system from 바카라 게임 웹사이트�promoting, advancing, or otherwise inculcating ... un-American, divisive, discriminatory, radical, extremist, and irrational theories바카라 게임 웹사이트� connected to race and gender.

Books ranging from Harper Lee's 바카라 게임 웹사이트� To Kill a Mockingbird 바카라 게임 웹사이트� and Khaled Hosseini's 바카라 게임 웹사이트� The Kite Runner 바카라 게임 웹사이트� to 바카라 게임 웹사이트� Hillbilly Elegy 바카라 게임 웹사이트� by Vice President JD Vance have since been stripped from some schools' library shelves, according to the ACLU. Authorities within the school system also purged curricular materials such as a chapter on sexuality and gender for an , and readings about immigration for fourth- and fifth-grade classes, according to the suit.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 12 students from six families who attend schools in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy and Japan.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�I have three daughters, and they, like all children, deserve access to books that both mirror their own life experiences and that act as windows that expose them to greater diversity,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Natalie Tolley, a plaintiff on behalf of her three children, said in a .

Outside of changes to the department's prekindergarten through 12th-grade educational programs, there have also been shifts at military colleges and universities. Roughly 380 books were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy바카라 게임 웹사이트�s library in April.

Officials have also been told to assess the stacks at Army and Air Force libraries to find books related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

A spokesperson with the Defense Department's school system said the institution does not comment on ongoing litigation.

ACLU sues Defense Department school system over banning race- and gender-related books

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