California, along with several other states, sued the Trump administration on Friday for demanding that public schools eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs that could otherwise lose federal funding — expanding its deficiencies to impose a stalemate on high stakes in students across the state.
California lawsuit. General Rob Bonta and other state attorney generals were ahead of the last deadline for the Trump administration, and state officials collected certificates from every school district nationwide, confirming that all DEI efforts have been cancelled, citing such DEI initiatives constituted illegal discrimination.
This comes two weeks after the California Department of Education defended the legitimacy of the DEI efforts in a letter to the head of the school district.
Bonta also defended the legitimacy of the diversity initiative when he announced the lawsuit on Friday.
“The U.S. Department of Education has not hesitated to abandon its mission to ensure equal access to education and the latest threat to wholesale termination of Congress' mandatory federal education funding,” Bonta said in a statement.
“Let me be clear: the Federal Department of Education is not trying to discriminate against 'fight' by this latest order. Instead, it is using our nation's fundamental civil rights laws as an excuse to force states to abandon efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion through legal programs and policies.”
Bonta's post has now sued the incumbent Trump administration 15 times, saying that President Trump “again…more than the powers set by his constitution and violates the law.”
Attorneys in Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota and New York joined the California lawsuit.
This article will be updated.
