The Department of Education opens investigation into Chicago public schools

The American education department surveyed Chicago public schools in the midst of allegations according to which a new program designed to improve academic success and retention between students and black educators violates federal law.

The investigation Announced Tuesday is based on a February complaint By non -profit parents who defend education, now known as education forbidden, which allegedly alleged the academic initiative of the school system for black students racily discriminating against students, violating title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

The investigation seems to be the first time that President Donald Trump took office in January that the department has investigated a public school system to institute a racial program.

The school district is the fourth largest in the country with 321,000 students, 35% of which were black During the academic school year 2023-2024.

The acting assistant secretary for civil rights, Craig Trainor, said that Chicago public schools had searched for the black students’ success plan to allocate resources promoting students according to the breed.

“Chicago’s public schools have a school failure file, leaving students from all walks of life and breeds in difficulty and poorly prepared to meet the challenges and take advantage of the awards of contemporary American life,” Trainor said in a statement.

Title VI prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin in education programs receiving federal funding. Schools found in violation of the law can lose federal funds, the ministry said.

“Chicago public schools do not comment on pending or ongoing disputes,” the school system said on Wednesday.

School officials said that the black student success plan had been designed to ensure that students had a fair learning experience.

The school system has announced the Black student success plan During the month of black history in February, saying that it was aimed at improving academic results and recruiting and retaining educators and managers.

“The district is committed to suppressing these obstacles and calls on the community to support efforts to better serve black students,” said Chicago public schools director Bogdana Chkoumbova, when the initiative was made public.

Defend education said in his complaint that “members oppose discrimination based on race and political indoctrination in American schools” and has described the plan as “racially exclusive”.

The organization could not be joined to comment on Wednesday.

The plan was to start this spring in order to shorten education gaps and promote engagement with students and black families, school officials said.

The president of the Chicago teachers’ union, Stacy Davis Gates, said that the investigation was an attempt to bother progress in the school system.

“Rather than using the Department to create opportunities for students, Trump and (Education Secretary Linda E.) McMahon seems determined to transform it into a debt collection agency and a vehicle to dismantle the protections of civil rights that support students and their families,” she said in a declaration.