The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to terminate Chicago Public Schools’ Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) grant and others over its Black Student Success Plan and treatment of transgender students in accordance with state law.

The cuts, detailed in a letter from Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor, would total $5.8 million — about half a percent of the district’s nearly $10 billion budget. It would total around $17.5 million for the total duration of the grants.

“To comply with the law, OCR requires that the Board and CPS take the following steps,” the letter states before laying out a list of nine demands, including publicly walking back all of the targeted policies.

CPS didn’t immediately have a comment on the letter.

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