As President Trump’s administration guts the federal government of all DEI programs, a major teachers union is suing the Department of Education in a bid to stop the crackdown.

From The Epoch Times. The American Federation of Teachers and the American Sociological Association sued the U.S. Department of Education on Feb. 25 over a letter warning that schools could lose federal funding if they did not cease their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within 14 days.

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In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Maryland, the plaintiffs said the Education Department’s Feb. 14 letter violates the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They asked the judge to declare the policy unconstitutional and bar federal officials from enforcing the directive.

In the letter, Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights within the department, condemned what he described as “overt and covert racial discrimination” in K–12 schools and universities, adding that proponents of such “discriminatory practices” have attempted to further justify them under the banner of DEI over the past four years.

In doing so, they have smuggled “racial stereotypes and explicit race-consciousness into everyday training, programming, and discipline,” Trainor wrote. He warned that schools had two weeks to stop any practice that treats people differently because of their race while vowing that the department would “vigorously enforce the law” and take “appropriate measures” to assess compliance. …

The American Federation of Teachers is one of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions, and the sociological association is a group of about 9,000 college students, scholars, and teachers.

They said the letter violates free speech protections provided under the First Amendment by forcing schools to teach only the views supported by the federal government. The letter also violates the Fifth Amendment because the directive is so vague that schools won’t know what practices cross the line, the lawsuit stated. …

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA/Pexels)