The U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS), by its Administration for Kids 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 Training Program (PREP) academic supplies inside 60 days.
In keeping 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 satisfy its demand to take away gender ideology from its academic supplies. HHS cautioned that states and territories receiving these new letters at the moment are on discover: failure to conform will lead to related 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,” mentioned Appearing Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison in an announcement. “Federal funds won’t 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.”
