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.
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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 f