School districts in Chicago, New York City, and Fairfax County, Virginia, are set to lose $24 million in federal funding for magnet schools for failing to address potential civil rights violations cited by the Trump administration.

Department of Education Acting Assistance Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor last week warned New York City Public Schools Chairperson Gregory Faulkner, Chicago Board of Education President Sean Harden, and Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid that the Trump administration would not sign off on multi-mullion dollar Magnet School Assistance Program (MSAP) grants for the next fiscal year if the districts failed to comply with federal law by Tuesday, the New York Post reported.

Trainor said the districts missed the deadline and

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