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Breaking - Judge blocks attempts to block DEI in K-12 schools (Original Post) malaise Apr 2025 OP
Judge partially blocks Trump's effort to ban DEI from K-12 education LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2025 #1
Thanks for the link malaise Apr 2025 #4
I am so fawking sick of him showing off that absolutely ridiculous signature. a kennedy Apr 2025 #5
I like it newdeal2 Apr 2025 #2
Complete and utter fool. As if there aren't minority kids in schools . lindysalsagal Apr 2025 #3

LetMyPeopleVote

(182,047 posts)
1. Judge partially blocks Trump's effort to ban DEI from K-12 education
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 03:39 PM
Apr 2025

trump is having a bad day at the courts

Judge partially blocks Trump’s effort to ban DEI from K-12 education

The judge stopped short of issuing the nationwide injunction, limiting the relief to any entity that employs or contacts with the groups that filed the lawsuit.

worldbytenews.bsky.social (@worldbytenews.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T17:55:45Z




https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-partially-blocks-trumps-effort-ban-dei-12/story?id=121131844&cid=social_twitter_abcnp

The Trump administration's attempt to make federal funding to schools conditional on them eliminating any DEI policies erodes the "foundational principles" that separates the United States from totalitarian regimes, a federal judge said on Thursday.

In an 82-page order, U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty partially blocked the Department of Education from enforcing a memo issued earlier this year that directed any institution that receives federal funding to end discrimination on the basis of race or face funding cuts.

"Ours is a nation deeply committed to safeguarding academic freedom, which is of transcendent value to all of us and not merely to the teachers concerned," Judge McCafferty wrote, adding the "right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and programs is…one of the chief distinctions that sets us apart from totalitarian regimes."

"In this case, the court reviews action by the executive branch that threatens to erode these foundational principles," she wrote.

The judge stopped short of issuing the nationwide injunction, instead limiting the relief to any entity that employs or contacts with the groups that filed the lawsuit, including the National Education Association and the Center for Black Educator Development.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

a kennedy

(36,348 posts)
5. I am so fawking sick of him showing off that absolutely ridiculous signature.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 03:55 PM
Apr 2025

🤬 🤬 🤬

newdeal2

(5,607 posts)
2. I like it
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 03:41 PM
Apr 2025

Tempered by the fact we know this will go all the way up to SCOTUS. And they will pull some BS.

lindysalsagal

(22,997 posts)
3. Complete and utter fool. As if there aren't minority kids in schools .
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 03:44 PM
Apr 2025

Not to mention teachers, admins, and staff . Might as well order that water falls up. This is utter insanity that the GOP supports the moron.

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