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\nStates should have the flexibility to decide whether schools can deny admission to students from families where there is \u201chomosexual or bisexual activity\u201d or someone \u201cpracticing alternate gender identity\u201d – even if those schools get federal money. So says the U.S. Education Secretary.<\/p>\n

During a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.)<\/a> told DeVos about Lighthouse Christian Academy<\/a>, a private school in Indiana that receives state voucher money but denies admission to students from families where there is \u201chomosexual or bisexual activity\u201d or someone \u201cpracticing alternate gender identity.\u201d Clark asked DeVos, whose budget seeks a $250 million increase for projects that include vouchers for private schools, if she would step in if that Indiana school applied for such federal funding.<\/p>\n

DeVos replied by saying she supports giving flexibility to states.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor states who have programs that allow for parents to make choices, they set up the rules around that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Clark pressed DeVos on whether she could see any situation in which she would overrule a school requesting federal voucher money \u2015 if the school discriminated against students based on sexual orientation, race or special needs, for example. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Office of Civil Rights and our Title IX protections are broadly applicable across the board,\u201d DeVos said. \u201cBut when it comes to parents making choices on behalf of their students\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t about parents making choices. This is about use of federal dollars,\u201d Clark interrupted. \u201cYou would put the state flexibility over our students?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a hypothetical\u2015\u201d DeVos said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a hypothetical,\u201d Clark snapped. \u201cIt\u2019s a real school.\u201d<\/p>\n

via HuffPost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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