threats in January of a withdrawal of federal funding <\/a>because of the university\u2019s response to a controversy over a transgender athlete on the women\u2019s volleyball team.<\/p>\nIn March, the California State University system filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to block the federal action, calling the federal penalty “lawless overreach,” based on existing Ninth Circuit judicial precedents and Department of Education interpretations under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit remains pending in federal court. The university system and the Trump Administration agreed to a court-approved stipulation that blocks the federal government from cutting off roughly $130 million in annual student federal funding while the litigation proceeds.<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s press release, the Department of Education said, \u201cOne email from SJSU\u2019s Vice President for Student Affairs and Former Interim Chief Diversity Officer purportedly made the distinction between \u201cgood Jews\u201d and \u201cbad Jews\u201d based on their support of the Israeli government.\u201d The department identified similar complaints that have been filed against San Francisco State.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth SJSU and SFSU have reportedly failed to acknowledge or meaningfully respond to cases of antisemitic harassment on campus, seeming, in some instances, even to condone such abhorrent acts,\u201d the department said today. \u201cThe same California leaders who wax eloquent about their commitment to \u2018equity\u2019 and \u2018social justice\u2019 appear to turn their backs on violent, harmful acts of antisemitic intimidation and harassment,\u201d said Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey in a statement. \u201cWe will investigate these allegations, ensure the safety of Jewish students, and protect the right of every student in America to an education free from discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Jan. 29, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order titled\u202fAdditional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism,\u202fstating that it is \u201cthe policy of the United States to combat antisemitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools.\u201d<\/p>\n
Title VI and its implementing regulations prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in educational programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.<\/p>\n
The California State University system filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on March 6, 2026, to block federal threats to strip San Jos\u00e9 State University of funding. The dispute centers on a Department of Education demanding that San Jose State sign a Title IX resolution agreement over its past inclusion of a transgender volleyball player. The lawsuit argues that subsequent 2025 executive orders by President Trump cannot be applied retroactively to penalize the institution for adhering to past laws.<\/p>\n
Three decades of journalism experience, as a writer and editor with Gannett, Knight-Ridder and Lee newspapers, as a business journal editor and publisher and as a weekly newspaper editor in Scotts Valley and Gilroy; with the Weeklys group since 2017. Recipient of several first-place writing and editing awards, California News Publishers Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Department of Education today opened a second front in its campaign against San Jose State University,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3629,5529,3007,2803,54207,88,90,89,6345,40284,6262,2468],"class_list":["post-425788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-antisemitism","tag-california-state-university","tag-civil-rights","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-san-francisco-state-university","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-state-university","tag-transgender","tag-u-s-department-of-education","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}