Biden’s Title IX sports rule draws 100,000 comments
The Biden Education Department has billed its rule as a compromise, since it allows transgender girls to play on girls sports teams, but with some limitations.
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The Biden Education Department has billed its rule as a compromise, since it allows transgender girls to play on girls sports teams, but with some limitations.
More than 700 colleges each have more than $1 million of unspent relief money, department officials wrote in a filing with the White House Office of Management and Budget last month.
“Our focus at the department is to provide equal access to students, including students who are LGBTQ, access free from discrimination," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.
“We have to do more to protect our schools so they aren't turned into prisons,” President Joe Biden said last month in the immediate aftermath of the Nashville shooting.
Republican attorneys general last week urged the Supreme Court to weigh in on a case involving the Education Department’s authority to “compromise” debts under the Higher Education Act.
Nearly a dozen states ban gender affirming medication and surgical care for transgender youth, according to the Movement Advancement Project.
“Education being used to divide communities is the challenge that we face now as leaders,” Cardona said.
Cassidy plans to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the student debt relief program.
The legislation will be a way for the GOP to force Democrats to go on record with their support for transgender students to play sports.
Republican presidential candidates made sure to mention education during appearances at the Conservative Political Action Conference and Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.