'New sheriff in town': Parents 'overjoyed' with Trump's DEI crackdown, education group says

Parents are "overjoyed" with the trajectory of the acquisition strategy nether President Donald Trump aft years of pushing backmost connected alleged woke practices successful schools, a parents' rights acquisition radical told Fox News Digital.

During his archetypal 2 weeks successful office, Trump signed respective education-related enforcement orders connected schoolhouse backing and antisemitism, and launched a national reappraisal of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices successful federally funded institutions.

Additionally, the Trump medication launched an probe into a Colorado school district for allegedly "discriminating against its pistillate students" aft a girls' restroom was reportedly converted into an "all-gender" facility, portion the boys' restroom remained for males only. 

Nicole Neily, the laminitis and president of Parents Defending Education, told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation that the probe volition "open the floodgates" of the Trump administration's expected crackdown connected akin policies successful schools crossed the country.

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"I deliberation what it is intended to bash is to nonstop a awesome to families that evidently there's a caller sheriff successful town. This is simply a priority. This administration, arsenic the enforcement orders person made clear, really views the quality successful the sexes to beryllium significant," Neily told Fox News Digital.

On Tuesday, the Department of Education sent a missive to the superintendent of Denver Public Schools to dependable the alarm implicit reports that East High School successful Denver was successful usurpation of Title IX aft opening up a female-only restroom to each genders. 

"For this to beryllium a precise wide awesome to families, to students, that if your schoolhouse has engaged successful thing similar, this is thing that the section is funny successful looking into and adjudicating," Neily said, adding that the probe is thing "families are going to beryllium truly encouraged by." 

Neily said that successful caller years, parents "have been gaslit by our states, by our section schoolhouse districts, by the national government" each due to the fact that "we privation our children to person a colorblind education," but that the acquisition strategy is already undergoing "sorely overdue" alteration nether Trump.

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During his archetypal week successful office, the president launched a national review of DEI teachings and practices successful acquisition institutions receiving national funding, successful an effort to reconstruct "merit-based opportunity," according to the White House.

Trump, anterior to being sworn in, said helium was unfastened to considering abolishing the Department of Education successful bid to springiness states much idiosyncratic power implicit their schools. Asked astir the idea, Neily said she believes that states "know their communities, their needs, their values amended than anybody successful Washington ever tin oregon would."

"I deliberation there's a existent accidental to marque definite that the section is focusing connected the things it should be, which is educating children, restoring spot successful the strategy and not doing things similar giving retired the cardinal dollars successful DEI-focused grants," she said.