{"id":191458,"date":"2026-04-09T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:33:09","slug":"trump-admin-cant-halt-millions-in-nyc-school-funding-over-transgender-policy-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191458\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin can’t halt millions in NYC school funding over transgender policy: judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Manhattan federal judge has vacated the Trump administration\u2019s move to halt magnet school grants to New York City over its policies for transgender students<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Judge Arun Subramanian in a 10-page order<\/a> Wednesday said the U.S. Department of Education failed to follow the procedures of Title IX \u2014 the federal civil rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex \u2014 and that it \u201cstrains credulity\u201d to argue they do not apply in this case.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is undisputed both that defendants did not follow these statutory procedures, and that the procedures would apply if they non-continued the grants because of Title IX violations,\u201d Subramanian wrote.<\/p>\n

The judge said the Trump administration\u2019s written back-and-forth with local education officials \u201cmakes clear that the alleged violations were violations of Title IX,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt thus strains credulity to argue that the DOE\u2019s actions were anything other than an effort to enforce Title IX.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration discontinued tens of millions of dollars in grant funding last fall, alleging school policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom or play on sports teams aligning with their gender identity<\/a> violated federal civil rights law. The grants included $11 million in carryover funds, which were restored earlier in the legal battle, and $36 million in future funds through the end of the grant period.<\/p>\n

New York City Public Schools sued the U.S. Education Department over the loss of those funds<\/a>, accusing the feds of illegally trying to coerce the city into changing its policies.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s lawyers tried to argue that the grants were discontinued as part of a separate process and therefore did not need to follow the procedures outlined in Title IX, which include interim steps, like a report or a hearing.<\/p>\n

While the order represents a victory for the city\u2019s public schools, and Subramanian said the court would be closing the case, the dispute over the system\u2019s gender policy seemed likely to continue.<\/p>\n

Subramanian directed the Education Department to make a new determination within 10 days about whether to continue the grants. The judge also declined to weigh in on whether city or federal officials were right about the guidelines violating Title IX or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Court cannot \u2014 and does not \u2014 order defendants to expend any funds to NYCPS or to renew the grants,\u201d Subramanian wrote. \u201cInstead, NYCPS is entitled only to vacatur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for the city and federal education departments did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan federal judge has vacated the Trump administration\u2019s move to halt magnet school grants to New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,85,267,9,24,264,12,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-191458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}