The U.S. Department of Education is cutting more than $3 million in funding from Fairfax County Public Schools because it allows students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.

The county’s Magnet School Assistance Program will bear the brunt of the $3.4 million loss in the upcoming fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1. One of the three schools affected is Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, ranked in August as the fifth best U.S. high school by U.S. News & World Report.

The cut follows the district’s decision to retain trans-inclusive policies in spite of the Trump-Vance administration’s Sept. 23 deadline requiring school districts to agree to change such policies. The Department of Education’s acting assistant secretary for civil righ

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