FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Trump administration threatens to pull funding from schools with race-based hiring, a Washington state school district is standing by its discriminatory practices.
Bellingham Public Schools in Bellingham, Washington, has a five-year diversity, equity, and inclusion “action plan” to prioritize the retention of “staff of color,” according to documents obtained by Parents Defending Education and first shared with The Daily Signal.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s Department of Education gave schools 14 days to end all admissions, scholarship, discipline, and employment practices that factor in race “preferences and stereotypes.” Schools that do not comply risk federal investigation and the loss of federal funding.
The administration cited the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard as…
