Three national teacher unions are challenging Trump administration guidance issued earlier this month to comply with nondiscrimination laws, alleging it’s seeking to “upend” diversity in school instruction.
The unions allege a Feb. 14 letter issued by the US Department of Education suggests that “a wide variety of core instruction, activities, and programs that schools, from pre-kindergarten through post-graduate education, use to teach and support their students now constitute illegal discrimination.”
“It is not clear how a school could teach a fulsome U.S. History course without teaching about slavery, the Missouri Compromise, the Emancipation Proclamation, the forced relocation of Native American ...