MASSAPA, NY (AP) – New York is discriminating a school district that refuses to get rid of its Mascot in native native Americans And he could deal with an investigation from the Department of Justice or the risk of losing federal funding, said the educational official of President Donald Trump on Friday.
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, on a visit to the High School in Long Island, said that an investigation by his agency has determined that state education officials violated the Title VI of the Federal Civil Rights Act, banning the use of pets and logos in the state of Native Americans.
The Department’s Civil Rights Office found that the state’s ban is discriminatory because names and pets are still allowed derived from other racial or ethnic groups, such as “Dutch” and “Huguenos”.
McMonon described the pet of the Muspequa heads as an “incredible” representation of the Native Americans’ leadership, as he made the announcement supported by dozens of students and local officials in the high school gym.
“Trump’s administration will not be maintained by state leaders trying to eliminate the history and culture of North -American native tribes,” said the ex -director general of World Wrestling Entertainment.
McMahon said that his department would ask the State to voluntarily sign a resolution to terminate his prohibition of North -Americans and allow the districts to continue to use the pet of his choice.
The resolution would also include an apology to the tribes, acknowledging that the state discriminated against Native Americans and that he “tried to erase the story of Native Americans,” the department said.
JP O’Hare, a spokesman for the New York Department of Education, dismissed McMahon’s visit as a “political theater” that interrupted the students’ class time.
He also said that Maspequa is making a “serious diservise” to his students ignoring the facts and refused to consult with the local tribes about his concerns about the pet.
“These representatives will tell them, as we have been told, that some names and images of the native Americans perpetuate the negative stereotypes and are demonstrably harmful to children,” O’Hare said in a statement. “If we really wish to honor our native Americans, we will teach our students the true story of the natives in the area and how our civilization advanced, instead of perpetuating obsolete and rejected myths.”
Trump ordered the Federal Education Department, which has moved to dismantleinto Start a query to the dispute last month. The movement has turned the coastal suburb into an unlikely flashpoint in the lasting debate over Place of indigenous pictures In North -Americans.
Tooch, which is about 64 kilometers (64 kilometers) east of Manhattan, has fought for years mandate of state to remove the sports names and pets from native Americans.
But his demand that challenged the State Prohibition of 2023 for constitutional reasons was rejected by a federal judge earlier this year.
State education officials, who have sought to eliminate pets and team names for more than two decades, gave districts until the end of this school year to commit themselves to replacing them or risking the financing of education.
Schools could be exempt from the mandate if they obtained the approval of a North -American local tribe, but Masapequa never sought this permission, according to state officials.
Residents who support the pet have argued that the image has been part of the community’s identity for generations and is intended to honor their native American past.
The city is called Massepequa, which was part of the people who inhabited the northern forests -east of the United States and Canada for thousands of years before being decimated by European colonization.
But indigenous residents on Long Island and elsewhere in New York have called the problem of problematic marzipa, as it represents an American native man carrying a touch that usually carried tribes in the middle American, but not north -east.
The joyful pet also darkens the legacy of massage violence against native Americans, which includes the site of a massacre stating that the scores of native men, women and children were killed by Europeans in the 1600’s, according to Native American activists.
Tookech, which is About 90% White, a popular conservative bastion between police and firefighters in New York, has long been a long time ago.
Trump visited the city last year by Assist to Wake of a New York City Police Agent and has made frequent visits to Long Island as he has done changed Republican.
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