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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trumps Push To End DEI In K-12 Schools

Critics have said Trump’s order conflicts with promise to return education to schools and states. A federal judge in New Hampshire has restricted the ability of US President Donald Trump’s administration to cut off funding to public schools that engage in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. District Judge Landya McCafferty in Concord issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday preventing the US Department of Education from enforcing its policy against members of three groups, including the National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union. The NEA, its local New Hampshire affiliate and the Center for Black Educator Development sued after the Education Department in February threatened funding cuts for education institutions that engaged in DEI efforts. In a letter, it said federal law prevented schools from considering race as a factor in areas such as admissions, hiring and promotion, pay, financial aid, scholarships and prizes, housing and graduation ceremonies. McCafferty, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, declined to issue an injunction blocking enforcement of the policy nationwide, but she said an order was warranted preventing it from being implemented with the plaintiffs, their members or any entity that employs or contracts their members. In early April, the Trump administration ordered K-12 schools (kindergarten to 12th grade) nationwide to certify within 10 days that they are following federal civil rights laws and ending any discriminatory DEI practices, as a condition for receiving federal money. It followed a February 14 memo where the Trump administration said it was giving US schools and universities 14 days to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money. In the memo, the Education Department also gave an ultimatum to stop using “racial preferences” as a factor in admissions, financial aid, hiring or other areas. Since then, schools across the US have been scrambling to determine what practices could run afoul of the anti-DEI orders. April’s certification letter, however, drew blowback from critics who said it conflicts with Trump’s promise to return education to schools and states. “Is this what the Trump administration calls local control? You can’t say you’re giving control back to states and then dictate how they run their schools,” Keri Rodrigues, president of the National Parents Union, told The Associated Press news agency earlier this month. The American Federation of Teachers, a national teachers’ union, also said it is suing to block the February 14 memo, saying it violates the First and Fifth amendments. The union’s president, Randi Weingarten, told The AP in early April that the certification requirement is illegal, and added that federal law prohibits the White House from telling schools and colleges what to teach, and that federal money cannot be withheld without due process. “He’s wielding a cudgel of billions in federal aid to tens of millions of children, of all races and ethnicities, to force educators to kowtow to his politics and ideology.” Follow Al Jazeera English:...

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Palestinian Officials Vote To Create A Vice Presidency Under Mahmoud Abbas

The expectation is that whoever holds the role would be the frontrunner to succeed President Mahmoud Abbas, 89. The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has announced the creation of a vice presidency under 89-year-old leader Mahmoud Abbas, who has not specified a successor. After a two-day meeting, the body’s central council voted on Thursday to create the role of vice chairman of the PLO Executive Committee. This position would also be referred to as the vice president of the State of Palestine, which the Palestinians hope will one day receive full international recognition. The expectation is that whoever holds that role would be the frontrunner to succeed Abbas, though it’s unclear when or exactly how it would be filled. Abbas is to choose his vice president from among the other 15 members of the PLO’s executive committee. The PLO is the internationally recognised representative of the Palestinian people and oversees the Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA), which exercises limited autonomy in some areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abbas has led both entities for 20 years. Hamas, which won the last national elections in 2006, is not in the PLO. Hamas seized control of Gaza from PA security forces in 2007, and reconciliation attempts between the rivals have repeatedly failed. Polls in recent years have shown plummeting support for him and his Fatah party. Western and Arab donor countries have demanded reforms in the PA for it to play a role in post-war Gaza. The authority is deeply unpopular and faces longstanding allegations of corruption and poor governance. Appointing an heir apparent could be aimed at appeasing his critics. Hamas slammed Abbas on Thursday for comments he made a day earlier, where he described the group as “sons of dogs” and urged it to release Israeli captives and lay down arms. “Abbas repeatedly and suspiciously lays the blame for the crimes of the occupation and its ongoing aggression on our people,” Senior Hamas official Basem Naim said. Since Israel’s war on Gaza resumed on March 18, at least 1,928 people have been killed there, bringing the total death toll since the war erupted in October 2023 to at least 51,305, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Abbas has been seeking greater relevance and a role in post-war planning for the Gaza Strip after having been largely sidelined. Talks on a new ceasefire appear to have made little progress, and a Hamas delegation is in Cairo for renewed negotiations with key Egyptian and Qatari mediators. Follow Al Jazeera English:...

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