(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - In what many are considering a big win for the Nation’s school kids, and for teachers’ freedom to teach honest history, the Republican Trump Administration’s Education Department has dropped its attempt to ban Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) teaching in U.S. Public Schools. 

Trump Education Secretary Linda McMahon had her top staffers send a “Dear Colleague” letter almost a year ago to every School District in the U.S.: Stop teaching DEI, certify that you did, or your Federal grant money would get yanked.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the American Sociological Association, AFT Maryland and a School District in Eugene, Oregon challenged the DEI ban in Federal Court in Baltimore - and won.

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher not only overturned that DEI ban, the certification requirement, and accompanying grant threat, but issued an injunction against them. 

AFT and its allies showed “neither agency action was promulgated in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act” and its processes for appealing Federal Agency rulings, the judge wrote: “Both actions violate important Constitutional Rights. Both actions must therefore be vacated. The Administration is entitled to express its viewpoints and promulgate policies in line with those viewpoints, but it must do so within the procedural bounds Congress outlined. It may not do so at the expense of Constitutional Rights.”

Trump’s Justice Department first appealed the Union’s win to the Federal Circuit Court in Richmond, Virginia - which covers Maryland.

But on January 21st, Trump’s Assistant Attorney General Brent Shumate dropped the appeal.

Neither the Education Department nor the Justice Department revealed that.

“Today marks a final defeat in the Trump-Vance Administration’s attempt to require School Districts throughout the Nation to censor lessons, abandon student support programs and certify their compliance with the Administration’s unlawful interpretation of Civil Rights,” the AFT said. 

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