New York state officials defied the Trump administration's directive to end DEI initiatives in public schools. The move could ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing back against Trump administration efforts to pressure public schools by threatening to withdraw federal funding.

The Trump administration says DEI programs violate federal civil rights law. It threatens to withhold funding if states don't ...

Daniel Morton-Bentley, counsel and deputy commissioner of the state Department of Education, said in a letter dated Friday to ...

New York schools are preparing for an education showdown with President Trump, after rejecting Friday the administration’s calls to scrap DEI policies — despite threats to pull federal ...

The directive called on states to certify they had ended racial preferences and other diversity, equity and inclusion programs in K-12 schools or face the loss of federal funding.

New York’s State Education Department just flipped the bird on the Team Trump order to scrap its Diversity, Equity and ...

New York is not alone in pushing back on demands by the Trump administration. Wisconsin called the anti-DEI demands ...

New York State education officials are pushing back against the Trump administration after it gutted U.S. Department of Education and said it would withhold federal funding from public schools that ...

The state of New York is refusing to comply with the Trump administration’s demands to end DEI practices in public schools ...

As the April 24 deadline approaches for states to affirm compliance with the Trump administration s policies restricting ...

“But there are no federal or state laws prohibiting the principles of D.E.I.,” Daniel Morton-Bentley, counsel and deputy commissioner of New York’s Department of Education, said in a Friday letter, ...