The Department of Education finds the agencies of New York violated the civil rights law with the prohibition of American native pets
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An investigation of the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in two agencies of the State of New York discovered that both violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Law on a prohibition of pets and logos inspired by American natives, a problem promoted in the National Center for National Attention due to a Long Island school district.
The Department of Education published a press release from its findings on Friday, just a month later First tough launch in the Department of Education of New York and at the Regent Board of the State of New York.
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, attests to a budget hearing of the subcommittee of the Assignments Committee on the United States Department of Education in Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lampkey, Jr.)
“The Trump administration will not remain as the state leaders try to eliminate the history and culture of the American native tribes,” the United States Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, who visited Massapequa High School, said on Friday.
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“Instead of focusing on the results of learning, the New York Education Department and the Regent Board has focused on erasing the history of Massopequa, while it will be a blind eye to the pets of other districts that derive or relate to other racial or ethnic groups. We will maintain the people of Massapequa until the judge is restored and justice is served and until New York is served. ”
The investigation was presented when the Association of Guardians of the Native Americans (NAGA) filed a complaint in April after stating that state agencies forced the school district of Massopequa, home from The bosses, To remove your pet.
A mural for the Massopequa Chiefs school sports teams, where, according to media reports, the Trump administration has launched an investigation into New York officials who threaten to retain state funds for the city of Massopequa for breach of a state mandate that eliminates the names of the American natives of school logos, is painted in a building with the high school with Mass Massapequa, on May 1, 2025. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
“The Native American Guardians Association remains firm in stating that the preservation of native issues and images in New York public schools is not only a matter of cultural dignity, but a fundamental civil law for all students. We call federal and state leaders to defend these expressions of decrease or our presence and contributions,” said Naga Vice President Frank Black Black Black in a statement at the time.
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“Maintaining a respectable presence in New York state schools is vital for educational equity, historical truth and civil rights of all US Indians.”
The Department of Education also found that while pets, names and logos inspired by American natives were not allowed under politics, others that “seem to have been derived from other racial or ethnic groups”, which makes politics “discriminatory.”
The district sued the State in September, claiming that their rights of the first amendment were violated, but a federal judge ruled against him. The brand change, including the change of name and logo, would cost approximately $ 1 million, said district officials.
A view of the Massopequa High School tent, in Massopequa, NY, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia DeMaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump He learned the problem last month and encouraged the Department of Education to investigate the ban, which called “an affront to our great Indian population.”
The 2022 mandate requires that all public schools withdraw the native American pets and logos or risk the loss of federal funds. Since then, four schools in Long Island have filed demands.
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The Department of Education announced Friday as part of its research that proposed the resolution of violations includes terminating the prohibition of “indigenous names, pets and logos”, issuing a memorandum to public schools that inform them about the changes and issuing letters of apologies to indigenous tribes that recognized that the actions of the two agencies “silus the voices of the US The history of the Native Americans. ”
A marquee outside the Massopequa high school is in the background for a mural of the “chiefs” pet, in Massopequa, NY, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia DeMaree Nikhinson)
The Department of Education said that the breach of the Resolution Plan risks more actions by the Department of Justice and the possible loss of federal funds.
Ryan Gaydos and Jackson Thompson of News Digital contributed to this report.
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