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Maryland school district caves to Trump and adopts forced outing policy to expose LGBTQ+ students (www.advocate.com)
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The Anne Arundel County policy change came after Education Secretary Linda McMahon urged the Justice Department to punish the district, citing parental rights protections.

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[–] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

According to a Google search, “Federal funding accounts for about 10.5% of total public K-12 school funding”

Probably not an amount worth caving over. The current administration will just use this financing threat to continue to blackmail them on other issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    10.5 % would be a MASSIVE loss for a public school system. Anne Arundel co. isnt poor (source: I'm close), but a 10% budget reduction would cause serious harm. Hopefully the 'caving' is just saying theyll change the rules but then no one actually follows through.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Total public school funding for who? This sounds like an average.

    Wouldn't a district in a poor area be more reliant on federal $?

    One of my elementary classes growing up was taught out of a trailer because the school couldn't afford repairs. I grew up in an extremely poor area.

    Edit - wikipedia says in 2010, "The median income for a household in the county was $83,456 and for a family was $97,557. Males had a median income of $63,187 versus $48,750 for females. The per capita income for the county was $38,660. About 3.3% of families and 5.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.9% of those under age 18 and 5.5% of those age 65 or over.[50]"

    They're probably fine monetarily honestly but who knows.

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