The Education Department is opening multiple investigations into school districts that have concealed child gender transition attempts from parents, The Daily Wire can first report.
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Albuquerque Public Schools and Santa Fe Public Schools in New Mexico and Pine-Richland School District and Pennsbury School District in Pennsylvania all face investigations from the Education Department, an official shared, describing the school districts’ behavior as “abhorrent.”
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“The Trump administration has made upholding parental rights and transparency in the classroom a key part of our education agenda — and we will continue to do so,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon told The Daily Wire.
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“Policies designed to conceal or hide the most sensitive information about a child’s well-being not only violate federal law but also educators’ moral obligation to let parents be the first decision-makers in their child’s lives,” McMahon added.
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“We will vigorously investigate these allegations and hold districts accountable to bring parents out of the dark.
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The move marks a significant step toward punishing school districts that have promoted gender ideology against the will of parents, and often without parents’ knowledge.
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The New Mexico investigations stem from allegations that the districts follow policies that prevent teachers and administrators from sharing information with parents about a child’s so-called “gender identity” or “gender transition.”
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A district social worker within Albuquerque Public Schools was allegedly blocked from sharing a child’s “gender identity” revelations with that child’s parents because the district’s “Procedural Directive PJ30” requires that the school use the name and pronouns the child prefers, regardless of that child’s biology.
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The policy also directs schools to shield “gender identity” information from permanent school records that parents might see.
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School officials in Santa Fe Public Schools asked students what preferred name or pronouns the children would like to use in class without the parents’ knowledge or consent, according to the Education Department official.
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Parents have also alleged that the district created “gender support plans” and other gender materials, such as a form titled “Name & Pronoun Info Sheet,” which directly asked the students what names and pronouns the teacher should use for them.
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The form specifically says that the teacher won’t tell the children’s parents — and even asks children what pronouns the teacher should use for that child in front of his or her parents.
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In Pennsylvania, the Pennsbury School District helped a young girl to “socially transition” or present publicly as a boy for three full years without her parents’ knowledge or consent, the official said.
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That social transition included calling the girl a male name and using male pronouns for her and keeping “records, communications, awards, and even social media posts reflecting a male identity for nearly three years without the parents’ knowledge or consent.”
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That school district has a policy that says students have a “right” to keep their gender identity concealed from parents, even though the district has another policy requiring parents to be involved when changing school records — a policy the district broke when it created a “separate, false identity” for the girl from her parents, the Education Department said.
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The Justice Department is partnering with the Education Department in its investigation of Pine-Richland School District, where school policies allegedly direct staff (including nurses and school psychologists) to help children obtain gender transitions without parental knowledge or consent in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA).
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The district provided students with tax-payer funded “gender transition teams,” according to the Education Department.
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It also required schools make the children’s preferred pronouns, name, bathroom, and sports team all based on their perceived “gender identity,” rather than their biological sex.
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“One parent was allegedly denied by the school district any notification if her child requested gender transitioning resources,” according to background shared by the agency.
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The investigations will be headed by the Education Department’s Student Privacy Policy Office, which will be looking into whether the schools violated FERPA, which gives parents the right to access their children’s education records, and PPRA, which requires schools to provide notification and obtain written parental consent when doing surveys or evaluations asking students about sensitive topics, including religion or sexual topics.
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The Education Department notes that violations of FERPA and PPRA can lead to loss of federal funding, and in early October, the Education Department and the Justice Department issued letters to every state attorney general in the country reminding them of the law.
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