Alaska schools that subject children to LGBTQ dogma in their sex-ed programs now have 60 days to purge this controversial content or face the loss of federal sex-ed funding.
The Trump administration announced the ultimatum on Aug. 21 as part of a national effort to remove all references to so-called “gender ideology” in public school sex-education classes.
Issued by the U.S. Dept. of Health, the directive was sent to 39 other states that receive federal Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) funding, which many Alaska schools utilize.
In FY23, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and the Cook Inlet Tribal Council each received $600,000 in PREP funds to educate Alaska Native children. Other schools throughout the state also rely on this federal money, which is distributed by the Alaska Dept. of Education. Annually, Alaska gets about $250,000 from this program for general distribution.
“Accountability is coming,” acting DHS Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison said in a Aug. 21 statement. “Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas.”
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In Alaska, PREP funds are supposed to assist vulnerable youth, help reduce teen pregnancy rates, help reduce sexually transmitted diseases and teach healthy relationships, financial literacy and career preparation.
In practice, many schools also insert gender-identity and fluidity dogma, causing gender confusion among students by reinforcing the notion that sexual identity has nothing to do with one’s fixed biological reality.
Those days appear to be over.
“The Trump Administration will ensure that PREP reflects the intent of Congress,” Gradison added, “not the priorities of the left.”
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OK DUNLEAVY YOU CAN WIPE YOUR FOREHEAD OF THE SWEAT CREATED BY IGNORING YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES! PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DOING YOUR DAMN JOB FOR YOU AGAIN!
Trump only works for himself.
I voted for him , so I believe he is working for me and also others that voted for him!
Joel, do you know how to find out which specific districts have/use this program? I’d be interested to find out if ours does.
Thanks,
Tami
“Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas.” Amen.
This woke, sickening, disgusting, evil crap, how did this ever get into our schools.
O wait the Biden’s,Obama etc..
Yet there will be students in school who have 2 moms or dads, Children will know and ask about it in class. You won’t make LGBTQ+ go away.
In that case, the teacher will say “ keep your question at home with your parents, you were made by a male and a female just like everyone else in this classroom.”
“Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next
generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas.” Amen.
This woke, sickening, disgusting, evil, how did this ever get into our schools.
O wait the Biden’s, Obama etc..
Trump has one business model: Extortion. The worst President since the Big Bang.
Big Bang, you mean when God created the Heavens and Earth.
Extortion? How would you describe teaching children that God made mistake when he made them? How would you describe lying to children to recruit them into your sexual perversion? How would you describe perfect strangers (teachers) inserting themselves in to the parent/child relationship and teaching kids that their parents hate them? That’s extortion. Get over your leftist BS self.
How would I describe that? You’ve welcomed the demons of nonsense, hypocrisy, non-critical thinking, superstition, conspiracy theories and hatred into your otherwise functioning mind.
At some point, Manny, you will respond to an actual question. Until then, you really are nothing but a troll.
Financial incentive to do the right thing.
How is that different from any other politician? Have you seen how both sides of the aisle in Congress operate? Trump is merely better at it. It’s a volume game: He’s got the Left in complete disarray jumping from one foot to the other focusing on a meeting out a few of his losses they can’t reconcile with all the wins he’s stacking up. It’s quite something to behold.
What wins?
For starters, the election itself.
Border closed
Over 100,000 illegal aliens deported and over 1 million self-deported
Dismantling of DEI
Iran no longer a nuclear threat for the immediate future
Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis in disarray or severely attrited
Politically biased government funded media now defunded
DC crime reduction
Wins. You’re right about the election – he won (though many are telling me that it was rigged).
Here’s some questions I’ve found for you or any Trump supporter to counter Trump “wins”.
These are serious questions for which I can’t find credible answers that explain the entire spectrum of their behavior. Why would Trump and the GOP:
— Condemn 12 million Americans to sickness and early death by gutting Medicaid? — Destroy American soft power by killing USAID, thus condemning millions to death? — Fire so many workers at the Social Security Administration that just getting through to sign up or get help has turned into a multi-day slog? — Gut the State Department at a time diplomacy is most needed for world peace? — End food assistance (SNAP) for millions when one-in-five American children experience hunger? — Refuse to enforce laws and rules that allow workers to form unions in their workplaces? — Propose forcing all new Medicare recipients onto Medicare “Advantage” corporate scam plans? — Stop the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from going after fraudsters and banks when they rip people off? — Eliminate a major NOAA program designed to warn communities about the dangers of flooding and other extreme weather crises?— Politicize the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Election Commission? — End net neutrality so none of us are safe online? — Shut down anti-cyber-warfare operations in the federal government? — Defund university research that leads to innovation and saves lives? — Cut unemployment insurance benefits across Red states? — Terminate support for people with student loans and gut scholarship programs? — Slash Affordable Care Act outreach budgets and allow junk insurance plans? — Reverse over 100 environmental rules, including those on clean air, clean water, and chemical safety?— Weaken Dodd-Frank, including gutting oversight of “too big to fail” banks and stress tests for mid-size financial institutions? — Dial back OSHA workplace safety standards and inspections? — Cut taxes to rich people while raising them via tariffs on working class folks? — Change the Federal Trade Commission to allow more monopolistic, rip-off corporate behavior? — Make it harder to vote and harass Blue states by demanding their voter information? — Work to prosecute women who have miscarriages or abortions? — Make it harder to qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)? — End auto emission standards and increase our reliance on fossil fuels? — Pack the courts with judges the American Bar Association says are “unqualified”? — Destroy our faith in our elections and set up election workers for harassment? — Fire the Inspectors General (who find waste, fraud, and abuse) across multiple federal agencies? — Weaken whistleblower protections? — Put the military on the streets of our cities in violation of Posse Comitatus? — Use state power to punish political opponents and those who’ve investigated Trump’s crimes, alleged Russian collusion, and corruption? — Create a network of concentration camps across America? — Allow a shadow cabinet of billionaires and theocrats via Project 2025? — Attack judges and prosecutors, leading to violence and threats of violence? — Foment violence (like on January 6th) as a political strategy? — Destroy our asylum and refugee systems? — Pardon insurrectionists, rapists, cybercriminals, and other wealthy criminals? — Defund the IRS so they can no longer audit the morbidly rich, leading to the loss of hundreds of billions in federal revenues? — Ban books and censor libraries? — Criminalize trans and queer people? — Roll back gun safety measures? — Defund the arts, humanities, and public media? — Gut vaccine and other programs that keep Americans healthy? — Nakedly politicize the military? — Expand federal surveillance powers while kneecapping oversight? — Criminalize free speech, particularly on college campuses? — Attempt to revoke birthright citizenship? — Attack press freedom and bar the Associated Press from the White House? — Sabotage the US Postal Service? — Undermine the census? — Scale back civil and women’s rights enforcement? — Normalize autocratic language like “vermin,” “scum,” and calling immigrants “animals”? — Expel millions of brown-skinned immigrants who’ve already gone through the legal process to get work permits and are on a path toward citizenship? — Create international fiscal chaos with an on-again, off-again TACO tariff policy? — Cancel the suicide hotline for queer kids?— Gut our national parks and sell off our federal lands to wealthy friends of the administration? — Create a vast, secret, unaccountable police force with masked officers whose identity is concealed? — Allow the president to accept hundreds of millions in obvious bribes from foreign powers in violation of the Constitution? — Work so hard to conceal the crimes of a notorious sexual predator?
Lastly, the Epstein case. Given the physical evidence, the testimonies of the victims, Trump’s hiding the files despite promising to release them (can you guess why?), and Trump’s documented history of groping, raping, hiring prostitutes, and the grab ’em by the pussy brag – given all we know about his narcissistic character, would you let him “date” your 17 yo daughter?
What you think are wins are made irrelevant by his voluminous awfulness.
Thank you. You got it perfectly.
Feel better now? He lives rent free in your head. Every one of those talking points have been fed to you by people who have a financial stake in keeping the watchdog away from the fat tax dollars they have stolen from all of us. But naturally, you entitled to your own opinion. It might be nice if you would realize you don’t really have the right to make up your own “facts.”
Well Tamra, how about the facts thus far in the Epstein child molesting
Given what we know of the case and what we know about the history and character of Trump, two questions: do you think he raped little girls and would you trust Trump around your 17 yo daughter?
At least Trump has a common sense like most Americans have! He knows what a woman is and he doesn’t call them birthing people or anything else that is nonsense. He knows when a person becomes a human being and he doesn’t allow them to be murdered. He know the difference between legal and illegal. He has been tried more than any other president and all other presidents put together. He has been shot at and attempted to be shot at, but he still here for a great reason. He is truly going to make America great again! He would not have to make all these cuts you are complaining about if the prior president did not waste our tax dollars on the Russia/Ukrainian war, giving lodging and everything else to millions of illegal immigrants, paying for childrens transitioning purposed surgeries, I could go on and on but I am done wasting my time. Thank you for reading my comments!
Valuable comment. Sometimes I get flummoxed by the idiocy of MAGA, so it’s helpful to have it spelled out for me.
I love it when common sense prevails 🙂