It amounts to some of the most forceful opposition yet as the Education Department uses federal funding as leverage to enact Trump’s agenda on issues from DEI to transgender athletes.

FILE - The U.S. Department of Education building is seen ... The New York and Minnesota letters both cite past comments from Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education secretary during his first term ...

The Trump administration set a deadline for schools to disavow DEI The U.S. Education Department told ... letters both cite past comments from Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education secretary during ...