Feds threaten CPS magnet school grants over Black Student Success Plan, treatment of trans students – Chicago Sun-Times

In the letter, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said the policy was discriminatory against white students and staff. “This is textbook racial discrimination, and no justification proffered by CPS can overcome the patent illegality of its racially exclusionary plan,” he wrote. The cuts would total $5.8 million — about half a percent of the district’s nearly $10 billion budget.