California continues after Trump reduced teachers training on Dei

California joined seven states led by the Democrats who continued the Trump administration on Thursday, seeking to interrupt hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher training programs designed to increase instructors in the necessary STEM fields and educate disabled students or who learn English.

The trial, filed with the Federal District Court of Massachusetts, zeros in two Obama era subsidies created by the congress to face the shortages of teachers in rural and urban areas and encourage students who study STEM – Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics STEM MATTERS – to assume teaching jobs in education K -12.

The Ministry of Education of Cups amounted to around $ 148 million in California and $ 102 million for other states that have continued: Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin and Colorado. Nationally, funding losses have totaled $ 600 million. No state led by the Republicans brought an action. Three groups of teachers filed a separate complaint this week before a federal court in Maryland.

In southern California, nearly 600 students are in the current cohorts who study to be teachers under subsidies and were to be assigned to high -needed school districts.

The cup “is not only a change of policy. It is a betrayal of students, teachers and our communities, “said A.DEE Williams, professor’s professor of Cal State, who works with trainees as head of the Los Angeles urban teaching residence program.

Reached by e-mail, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education refused to comment because the dispute is pending.

By announcing subsidy reductions on February 17, the Ministry of Education said that programs use taxpayers’ funds to “train teachers and education agencies on division ideologies” which were “inappropriate and useless”. He cited “the theory of critical race, diversity, equity and inclusion (dei); activism of social justice; “Anti-racism”; and instruction on white privilege and white supremacy. »»

President Trump is committed to ridding schools and universities of “awareness” and to use federal funding as a leverage. He also intends to dismantle the Ministry of Education, calling the agency “a great work” infiltrated by “radicals, fanatics and Marxists” who have misused the dollars of taxpayers.

The Thursday trial alleys that the cancellations of teacher training grants have led to “immediate and irreparable damage” which “will disturb the pipelines of the teachers’ workforce, increase dependence on undercurant educators and destabilize local school systems”.

The University of California and California State University, pipelines of the teaching force, will lose the majority of their $ 56 million in multi -year subsidies if a federal judge does not block the cuts. The additional $ 92 million of funds allocated to California go to private universities and other non -profit educational groups that administer subsidies, which are also in danger.

“Universities should seek layoffs, a reduction in hours for university staff, a reduction in funding for budding teachers,” California Atty. General Rob Bonta declared by announcing the state trial.

“Without these programs, impacted rural and urban schools will have to use long -term substitutes, teachers with emergency references and teachers without derogation license. This will harm the quality of education and can lead to an increase in the number of students below national standards, “said the prosecution.

States also allege that the Trump administration has violated the administrative procedure law, which regulates the creation of executive management rules, and the congress congress, which authorized funds and controls the federal budget.

“The actions of the ministry seem to encompass the” political objectives “to put an end to the disadvantaged but legal efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion – of the objectives that Congress expressly ordered the beneficiaries to achieve in the creation of these programs,” said the trial. He adds that programs are mandated by law to ensure that “general education teachers receive training in the provision of education at various populations, including disabled children, limited English students and children of low -income families.”

The trial stresses that many of the subsidies – some of which supported the increase in racial diversity in education – were approved as part of the first Trump administration. Bonta challenged the anti-dei characterization of the department at a press conference on Thursday.

He accused the administration of “conducting cultural wars with these fashionable words” to “nourish their political base and create political coverage for a manifestly illegal action”.

The cuts took place last month in the middle of sweeping federal expenses in the Ministry of Education and other agencies and government programs since the inauguration of Trump. Trump instructed his Cost-Cutter chief, Elon Musk, for managing the so-called Ministry of Government Effectiveness, which is not a federal agency. DOGE has recommended large cuts in federal programs, many of which involve LGBTQ + or diversity problems, and have been encountered with a multitude of prosecution.

Among the programs canceled, there is a subsidy of $ 7.5 million to Cal State to train and certify 276 teachers over five years old to work in high schools or high poverty in the school districts of Los Angeles Unified and Pasadena Unified. As part of the program, teachers would focus on work with disabled students as well as on STEM and bilingual education.

Other cancellations include a program of $ 8 million at the UCLA to train at least 314 college directors and mathematics, English, science and social sciences teachers to serve around 15,000 students in the school districts of the County Los Angeles, among them Lausd, Glendale Unified, Lancaster Unified and Norwalk-La Mirada Unified.

“The end of these education subsidies will obstruct the pipeline of good passionate and qualified teachers (and prevent them) from entering our classrooms,” said Bonta. “This will crush budding teachers, people who feel called to do this work …. It will come out of teachers outside the school and far from children who deserve each investment in their education, in their future.”

At the national level, there is a shortage of around 400,000 teachers, according to Learning Policy Institute, including tens of thousands of positions in California. With inadequate remuneration and long hours, the profession has struggled to attract new workers or to keep those who enter, because professional exhaustion is a major problem. Schools and districts of less rich and rural areas have also faced obstacles in the recruitment or maintenance of workers.

Shireen Pavri, assistant vice-chance of the CSU for the educator and leadership programs, said that she was “devastated” by the cups.

The decision “releases the academic and financial support of students who are currently registered … This has a negative impact on the infrastructure that we have carefully built,” said Pavri, who joined Bonta with a colleague and a student at the event on Thursday.

In Cal State, Williams worked in close collaboration with the trainees funded by Grant as the main instructor of the Los Angeles Urban Teachers’ residence program. The program, which lasts more than a year, works with “residents of teachers” who focus on STEMs and are placed in schools alongside mentors to obtain training during the job.

When the students-teachers obtain permanent jobs in their own classrooms, “they managed to run,” he said, citing training and mentorship funded by subsidies. “They know what they are doing. They are confident and they are supported, and that is why they succeed. »»

Jonathan Sze, an educator from Cal State En Formation who teaches chemistry at Woodrow Wilson High School, said that the Trump administration decision “would probably prevent people who are like me from becoming teachers.”

Sze, who studied to become a pharmacist, has changed in recent years to focus on teaching science. The subsidy to Cal State helped pay her studies and his salary in class, where he teaches students of 10th and 11th year. In August, he expects to have identification information to teach by himself.

Because he received his subsidy funding before the cancellations last month, Sze said he does not expect the changes to affect his training. “But this program and this program like this should continue – they must continue – to support the next generation of teachers.”