The city is suing the federal government over nearly $50 million in funding for magnet schools it pulled over the city\u2019s policies regarding transgender students.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s public schools have long allowed transgender students to use restrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms, and play on sports teams, matching their gender identity. But the federal government says that violates Title IX and demanded the city separate students in those spaces based on their biological sex. Doing so would violate state law in New York.<\/p>\n
In the filing, the city education department argues the funding had previously been approved, and that the new interpretation of Title IX \u201cputs politics before public schools\u201d and is contrary to the law.<\/p>\n
The suit comes after the mayor has previously said he does not believe students of different sexes should share facilities but acknowledged he could not change the law.<\/p>\n
In a statement Thursday, city Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos vowed to fight back against attacks on the magnet program, and on transgender and gender expansive students.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy deepest commitment is to provide our magnet students, our transgender and gender expansive students, and every single student at New York City Public Schools with the ability to thrive academically and socially; to achieve that, my team and I work tirelessly to ensure every student feels seen, supported, and safe,\u201d Aviles-Ramos\u2019 statement reads. \u201cWe use every possible tool to do that, as today\u2019s legal action demonstrates.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement, a\u00a0federal education department spokesperson said\u00a0the lawsuit has \u201cno merit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe MSAP program requires certification of civil rights compliance, which we could obviously not do in the face of NYC\u2019s continued determination to violate the rights of female students under Title IX,\u201d the spokesperson\u2019s statement reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city is suing the federal government over nearly $50 million in funding for magnet schools it pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[203,25,98,100,99,67,5215,9,24,12,63,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-5387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-app-education","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-education","14":"tag-jillian-jorgensen","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387","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=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}