Education Secretary threatens to drag funding from NY over its Native American mascot ban

New York is discriminating towards a college district that refuses to do away with its Native American chief mascot and will face a Justice Department investigation or danger dropping federal funding, President Donald Trump’s high schooling official mentioned Friday.

US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, on a go to to Massapequa High School on Long Island, mentioned an investigation by her company has decided that state schooling officers violated Title VI of the federal civil rights legislation by banning using Native American mascots and logos statewide.

The division’s civil rights workplace discovered the state ban is discriminatory as a result of names and mascots derived from different racial or ethnic teams, such because the “Dutchmen” and the “Huguenots,” are nonetheless permitted.

“The Trump Administration will not stand idly by as state leaders attempt to eliminate the history and culture of Native American tribes,” the previous longtime CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment mentioned. #CNN #News