Trump administration to hold back grants from NYC, Chicago, Fairfax schools over trans bathroom policies [View all]
Source: NBC News/AP
Sept. 25, 2025, 3:20 PM EDT / Source: The Associated Press
Three of the nation's largest public school districts stand to lose $24 million after missing a Trump administration deadline to agree to change policies supporting transgender students, officials said Wednesday.
The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights had given New York City Schools, Chicago Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia until Tuesday to agree to stop giving students access to locker rooms and restrooms corresponding with their gender identity or risk losing funding for specialty magnet schools.
In letters to the districts Sept. 16, the Education Department's acting assistant secretary for civil rights, Craig Trainor, said the practice violates Title IX, which forbids discrimination based on sex in education.
Because the districts did not agree by Tuesday to take remedial action detailed in Trainor's letters, the department said, Trainor will not certify that they are in compliance with federal civil rights law, making them ineligible for the grants.
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