The Trump administration is stripping federal education funding from California for refusing to remove what the government calls radical gender ideology from sex-education materials. California faces a $12.3 million grant termination tied to a sexual education program for adolescents, an HHS spokesperson said. President Donald Trump warned on Truth Social that any California school district that does not adhere to transgender policies will not be funded. California public schools receive nearly $8 billion annually in federal aid for low-income, special-education and disability programs. The Education Department also warned in June that the state violated rules protecting female athletes, and HHS officials framed the grant cut as accountability for federally funded sex-ed materials.
The Trump administration is stripping some federal education funding from California for refusing to remove what the government calls radical gender ideology from sex education materials. California is poised to lose $12.3 million in the cuts, an HHS spokesperson told Bloomberg Law, which come in the form of the termination of a grant for a program focused on sexual education to adolescents.
All told, California's public schools receive nearly $8 billion of aid from Washington each year to support programs for low-income students, pupils with disabilities and special-education services. in June, the US Education Department said the state is violating rules protecting female athletes from unfair competition and also threatened to pull funding. California's refusal to comply with federal law and remove egregious gender ideology from federally funded sex-ed materials is unacceptable,
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