A federal judge says the Trump administration acted illegally when it ordered San Francisco public schools and the city of Santa Fe, N.M., to stop promoting racial and gender diversity in their AmeriCorps volunteer programs or they would lose their federal funding.
The 1993 law that established AmeriCorps authorized programs “to help ‘diverse communities’ and those with ‘unmet human needs,’” and the administration’s directives defy those goals, said U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco.
“AmeriCorps failed to provide a justification for its reversal of policy,” Chen wrote in a ruling last Wednesday. He issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the government from cutting off the grants as a penalty for refusing to align their policies with those of the Trump administration.
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As part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to purge the government of “diversity, equity and inclusion,” his AmeriCorps officials ordered grant recipients in February to end programs that promote any of those goals.
The San Francisco Unified School District was told to eliminate consideration of goals such as “racial justice,” “diversity,” “clean energy,” “environmental justice” and “gender identity” or lose the remainder of its $667,000 grant that was to run through the end of 2025. The funding allows the district, an AmeriCorps participant for the last 10 years, to send 44 staff members and volunteers to 38 schools, seeking to aid youths with high truancy rates and low levels of academic achievement.
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