52 Organizations Call on Speaker Mike Johnson to Establish House Task Force to End the Weaponization of the Department of Education

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52 Organizations Call on Speaker Mike Johnson to Establish House Task Force to End the Weaponization of the Department of Education

WASHINGTON / May 16, 2024 – Members of the Title IX Network are releasing a letter [1] today calling for Speaker Mike Johnson to establish a House task force to end the weaponization of the Department of Education.

On May 9, representatives from several organizations of the Title IX Network [2] held meetings with Congressional staffers of 18 Members of the House of Representatives. The purpose of the meetings was to recommend the establishment of a Task Force of key House Members to confer on strategies to end the weaponization of the Department of Education.

This opposition seen not only in the U.S. Congress, but the overall response from the American public has been highly negative. [3], [4],[5],[6] Specifically,

Eight lawsuits from 22 states have been filed in federal courts to block the regulation. [7]
On Tuesday the eight lawsuit was filed by the Attorneys Generals from Kansas, Wyoming, Utah and Alaska [8]
Impressively, one of the lawsuits features 17 school districts in Louisiana as plaintiffs. [9]
Numerous states already have declared they will not follow the new policy, including AR, FL, LA, NE, OK, and SC. [10]

The Heritage Foundation’s proposal for the Department of Education in its Mandate for Leadership 2025 has a chapter (Chapter 11) on how to reform the Department of Education: [11]

The Heritage Foundation proposal would:

Make Block grants for selected functions to the states
Transfer selected functions to the Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, etc.
Discontinue the other functions

In response to the Biden administration’s Title IX regulation, SAVE has set up a Candidate Pledge to Protect Schools, Children, and Families from the Federal Title IX Plan. We encourage you to sign the Candidate Pledge. [12] If interested, contact Bob Thompson at rthompson@saveservices.org.

American’s will not allow the Department of Education to continue to weaponize its Congressional mandate for partisan or ideological purposes.

Links:

1. https://www.saveservices.org/2024/05/letter-to-house-speaker-johnson/

2. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-Policy/

3. https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/opinion/bidens-new-title-ix-rules-prove-its-time-for-the-doe-to-be-doa/

4. https://www.newsweek.com/biden-admin-weaponizing-title-ix-promote-fringe-sexual-politics-opinion-1894635

5. https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/14/from-title-ix-to-title-none-biden-kills-womens-sports-and-safety/

6. https://thewordofdamocles.substack.com/p/another-biden-administration-attack

7. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/abolish-doe/

8. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/abolish-doe/

9. https://attorneygenerallynnfitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/File-Stamped-Louisiana-v.-U.S.-Dept-of-Education-Title-IX.pdf

10. https://www.saveservices.org/2024/05/naked-attempt-to-strong-arm-our-schools-five-lawsuits-seek-to-block-sweeping-title-ix-rule/