The U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS), by means of its Administration for Youngsters and Households (ACF), introduced on August 26 in a press launch that it has demanded that 46 states and territories take away all references to gender ideology from their federally funded Private Accountability Schooling Program (PREP) instructional supplies inside 60 days.
In accordance with HHS, the motion demonstrates the Trump Administration’s ongoing dedication to safeguarding youngsters from “efforts to indoctrinate them with delusional ideology.”
Final week, ACF terminated California’s PREP grant after the state failed to fulfill its demand to take away gender ideology from its instructional supplies. HHS cautioned that states and territories receiving these new letters are actually on discover: failure to conform will end in comparable enforcement actions, together with the withholding, suspension, or termination of federal PREP funding.
The 46 recipients of those letters embody the next states and territories:
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Washington D.C.
“Accountability is coming,” stated Performing Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison in a press release. “Federal funds is not going to be used to poison the minds of the subsequent technology or advance harmful ideological agendas. The Trump Administration will make sure that PREP displays the intent of Congress, not the priorities of the left.”
