Chicago Public Schools rebuffs Trump administration’s threat to cut magnet school funding over diversity efforts – Chalkbeat Chicago

The feds demanded CPS abolish the Black Student Success Plan it unveiled in February and issue a statement saying it will require students to compete in sports or use locker rooms and bathroom facilities based on their biological sex at birth, among other demands. But CPS’ Acting General Counsel Elizabeth K. Barton responded that the district’s “policies and practices are prescribed by state and local law, and CPS remains in compliance with those laws.”