{"id":1577590,"date":"2022-07-29T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577590"},"modified":"2022-07-29T01:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T05:04:03","slug":"florida-instructs-schools-to-ignore-not-binding-title-ix-federal-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-instructs-schools-to-ignore-not-binding-title-ix-federal-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Instructs Schools to Ignore \u2018Not Binding\u2019 Title IX Federal Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-instructs-schools-to-ignore-not-binding-title-ix-federal-guidance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577590&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida\u2019s Department of Education on Thursday instructed school officials to ignore new federal guidance that interprets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-title-ix\">Title IX<\/a> sex-based discrimination protections in schools to include the disputed concept of gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Florida\u2019s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), which administers\u00a0the national school-lunch program, notified schools\u00a0without consulting Florida\u2019s education department that they should comply with the federal guidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>] and [FDACS Commissioner Nikki Fried]\u00a0are attempting to hold our most vulnerable students hostage over radical gender ideology. Florida schools have NO obligation to follow this federal guidance and will not be threatened into submission,\u201d Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMannyDiazJr\/status\/1552759880330711041?s=20&#038;t=pvKS4C9ev2DiR6T-gxSlRg\">said on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudup.com\/c8JtP7hvzxL\">memo<\/a>\u00a0sent to state superintendents, school boards, private school owners, and charter school governing boards, Diaz Jr. informed school officials that the guidance issued by\u00a0the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is \u201cnot binding law, do not create any new legal obligations, and should not be treated as governing law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diaz Jr. said the federal agencies acknowledged in litigation that its\u00a0guidance is not binding or enforceable, and he instructed school officials not to modify their practices or procedures based on the document.<\/p>\n<p>The USDA announced in May that schools that want national lunch program funding must allow transgender youth to use gender-designated bathrooms of their choice. But Diaz noted that this would be in violation of Florida law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, for example, nothing in these guidance documents requires you to give biological males who identify as female access to female bathrooms, locker rooms, or dorms; to assign biological males who identify as female to female rooms on school field trips; or to allow biological males who identify as female to compete on female sports teams,\u201d Diaz wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the extent that you do any of these things, you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s Department of Education on Thursday instructed school officials to ignore new federal guidance that interprets Title IX sex-based discrimination protections in schools to include the disputed concept of gender identity. This comes after Florida\u2019s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), which administers\u00a0the national school-lunch program, notified schools\u00a0without consulting Florida\u2019s education department that they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}