The Flagstaff Unified School District's (FUSD) board heard an update on the district’s response to recent federal actions at its meeting Tuesday.
The meeting agenda lists five ways FUSD could be affected by recent federal policy changes: immigration, Title 9 protections, gender recognition guidance, directives on race-based policies and practices and possible changes to both the U.S. Department of Education and federal funding in the future.
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"The department will no longer tolerate the overt and covert racial discrimination that has become widespread in this nation's educational institutions," the letter said.
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Education funding has been among the areas that have been uncertain since last month's federal funding freeze, including in Flagstaff’s K-12 schools.
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Law enforcement agencies in Flagstaff said the law would not directly affect their officers� day-to-day operations.
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