California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) sued the Trump administration Wednesday for threatening to terminate all federal education funds to the state, totaling $4.9 billion annually.
The complaint is challenging the administration’s finding last month that the California Department of Education encouraged local school districts to violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal law which requires schools to disclose certain student records to parents when asked.
The US Department of Education’s investigation into the state focuses on records about the gender identity of transgender students and appears “to be motivated by discriminatory animus against transgender people,” the ...