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Nonilex<p>Major <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> cutbacks: The budget proposes massive cuts at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NIH</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a>, but it includes $500M for *Health* <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a>’s signature initiative: Make America Healthy Again. The CDC’s budget would be cut by more than half, to $4B from roughly $9B.</p><p>Significant reduction in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a>: Education spending would fall by $12 billion under <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s 2026 blueprint, w/the most significant cut coming from a plan to “streamline” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TitleI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TitleI</span></a> money for high-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a> &amp; other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/K12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>K12</span></a> programs.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NY</span></a> public schools tell <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration they won’t comply with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> order</p><p> By DAVE COLLINS<br>Updated 3:14 PM EDT, April 5, 2025</p><p>Excerpt: "The demand specifically threatens <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TitleI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TitleI</span></a> funding, which sends billions of dollars a year to America’s schools and targets <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LowIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LowIncome</span></a> areas.</p><p>"Morton-Bentley wrote that the state Education Department has already certified to the federal government on multiple occasions that it is complying with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TitleVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TitleVI</span></a> of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRightsAct</span></a> of 1964, most recently in January. He said the federal department is basing its demands to end DEI programs on a faulty legal interpretation.</p><p>"'Given the fact that you are already in possession of guarantees by NYSED that it has and will comply with Title VI, no further certification will be forthcoming,' he wrote.</p><p>"He also said the administration’s stance is an 'abrupt shift' from the one taken by the first Trump administration, citing comments in 2020 made by then-U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inclusion</span></a> were 'cornerstones of high organizational performance.' He wrote the administration has provided no explanation of why it changed positions."<br> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-schools-federal-funding-ae605932fa7fa6605f89574906a346f7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/dei-trump-s</span><span class="invisible">chools-federal-funding-ae605932fa7fa6605f89574906a346f7</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewYorkResists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkResists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeeYouInCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeeYouInCourt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HandsOffEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOffEducation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> Dept administers federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/grant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grant</span></a> programs, including the $18.4B <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TitleI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TitleI</span></a> program that provides supplemental funding to high-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> K-12 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a>, as well as the $15.5B program that helps cover the cost of education for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a> with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disabilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilities</span></a>. The dept also oversees the $1.6T federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StudentLoan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentLoan</span></a> program &amp; sets rules for what <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/colleges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colleges</span></a> must do to participate.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
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