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New York City Public Schools filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday over its move to cut $47 million in promised grants in response to the schools' policies regarding transgender students.

The lawsuit asks for the reversal of the move to pull the grants.

City officials said the federal agency stripped funding without the required notice or hearing, after it concluded that school policies allowing transgender students to participate on sports teams and use bathrooms matching their gender identity rather than biological sex violate Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in education.

Last month, the Department of Education gave New York City Public Schools a Sept. 23 deadline to ame

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