Ed Dept Moves To Cut All Funding From Maine, Refer State To DOJ

The U.S. Department of 🎓Education (ED) on Friday announced it was pulling all K-12 funding from the state of Maine and referring it to the Department of Justice (DOJ) over consistent noncompliance with the Trump administration’s ban on males competing in female sports.

The Maine Department of 🎓Education (MDOE) has been in a dispute with the administration for weeks after Democratic Gov. Janet Mills publicly vowed to sue the Trump administration over its enforcement of President Donald Trump’s February executive order banning men from women’s sports.

“The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,” Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for Civil Rights at ED, said in the announcement. “The Maine Department of 🎓Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department. Governor Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom—be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.”