May 2025 | Page 33 of 33 | Restoring Liberty

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for alleged racial discrimination in its “Black Student Success Plan,” which reportedly only focuses on the academic achievement of black students.

The Title VI investigation comes after education advocacy organization Defending Education filed a complaint with the department’s Office for Civil Rights in February. The Education Department’s press release states that the “Black Student Success Plan” deals with “remedial measures only for black students, despite acknowledging that Chicago students of all races struggle academically.”

“Chicago Public Schools have a record of academic failure, leaving students from all backgrounds and races struggling and ill-prepared to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of contemporary American life,” Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said. “Rather than address its record honestly, CPS seeks to allocate additional resources to favored students on the basis of race. The Trump-McMahon Department of Education will not allow federal funds, provided for the benefit of all students, to be used in this pernicious and unlawful manner.”

“To CPS, I say this: Every American student deserves access to a quality education, and the Trump Administration will fight tirelessly to uphold that ideal and ensure all students are treated equally under law,” he added. (Read more from “Trump Admin Investigates Chicago Public Schools For Racial Discrimination” HERE)

Acomprehensive Department of Health and Human Services review published on Thursday found that there was never any evidence to support the radical gender ideology that was welcomed by healthcare institutions across the nation.

The 409-page report, commissioned in President Donald Trump’s January 28th executive order effectively defunding chemical and surgical mutilation on children, found that the doctors who embraced and advanced radical gender ideology in pediatric patients experiencing gender confusion “lacked sufficient scientific and ethical justification” for those interventions.

“While no clinician or medical association intends to fail their patients — particularly those who are most vulnerable — the preceding chapters demonstrate that this is precisely what has occurred,” the report concluded.

HHS specifically determined that the “gender-identity” method used to rationalize irreversibly damaging kids’ minds and bodies is senseless and should not have gained widespread traction due to a “lack of robust evidence.”

“In short, ‘gender identity’ as it appears in SOC-8 and related literature is ill-defined,” the review suggested. “It may be true that a person’s gender identity is subjective, or undetectable by blood tests or neuroimaging, or otherwise beyond the reach of science, but the more critical point is that no tolerably clear definition of ‘gender identity’ has been offered in the first place. This is a serious problem, because the term figures centrally in the justification for medical intervention.” (Read more from “HHS Report Confirms No Evidence To Support Castrating And Mutilating Gender Confused Kids” HERE)

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