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No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don't Comply With Its LGBT Agenda
The Biden administration is requiring schools to comply with its LGBT policies or lose billions in federal funding for school lunches.
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So I am trying to unravel what is going on here with more ludicrous behavior from the Blue States / Liberals / Biden Admin. and I think it's 2 different issues here with School Lunches for disadvantaged children.
The 1st is that the moves put in place for the Plague are expiring. This gave more reimbursement and flexibility to School Districts in what and how they feed these children. So they had more flexibility in not following nutritional guidelines, schools could hand out meals on the sidewalk to kids who were staying home during the plague and the School District received higher levels of funds under the Relief Bills. These are EXPIRING and of course, like everything else, the Liberal states and districts want these higher level of funds and flexibilities to continue.
Another example of, we did it for Covid but lets keep it going forever and ever. Give a dog a bone and then another and another and another............
The 2nd issue affecting the School Lunch program is the Biden Administration insisting that any school that does not participate in their woke LGBTQ+ mandates will NOT receive funds to feed disadvantaged school children. The Biden Left Wing Title VII Executive Order.
The announcement builds on President Joe Biden's Day One Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation, which permits transgender students to use male or female bathrooms and play sports with either sex. Biden's executive order drew on the Supreme Court's ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which altered the meaning of "sex" in Title VII to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Biden administration will also force schools that receive funds from FNS to investigate accusations of sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. Students at colleges and universities who reject the Biden administration's definition of sex could also lose their Federal Student Aid.
"Any discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in FNS programs will be handled as sex discrimination," a USDA spokeswoman told the Free Beacon.
Baylor suspects most public schools will comply with the new interpretation as they heavily rely on federal funding. He encouraged parents to submit their concerns to the Department of Education, which is expected to issue new Title IX protections soon that could permit transgender individuals to access sex-segregated spaces.
Jonathan Butcher, a fellow in education at the Heritage Foundation, said the Biden administration's interpretation of Title IX would also prohibit schools from informing parents of their child's decision to assume a different gender.
"It is a parent's right to know what their children are doing or what sort of health services or even counseling services are being provided to their children in a school setting," Butcher said.
Parents Defending Education director of outreach Erika Sanzi called the Title IX decision "preposterous."
"The notion that schools will not receive funding for student meals if they refuse to let biological males use the girls' bathroom and compete against girls in athletics is so preposterous, it sounds like parody," Sanzi said.
So here you go. If the School district or University does NOT comply and let Boys go into Girls bathrooms, compete in sports with either sex, if they don't use the proper pronouns, if they discuss any of this with the Parents, then SUCH SCHOOL OR UNIVERSITY WILL BE STRIPPED OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES AND FEDERAL STUDENT AID LOANS>
And you wonder why Parents are OUTRAGED! Governors from Red states have VOWED TO SUE the Administration over these mandates.
