LAUSD hides sensitive student information from parents, Trump administration alleges

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Set us as preferred The Trump administration has launched an “enforcement action” against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing it of hiding sensitive student information from parents in relation to a student’s gender identity.The administration also is investigating alleged violations of parents’ right to safeguard their children from the collection of private and sensitive information at school.

L.A.Unified has denied wrongdoing.Federal officials described their actions as morally necessary and in keeping with legal requirements.“The Trump Administration is acting with unprecedented energy and purpose to restore parents’ natural rights as the primary protectors of their children,” said U.S.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.“Parents are children’s natural providers and protectors,” said Harmeet K.

Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights.In their release, federal officials did not provide details on the nature of their action.The announcement referenced only “a new enforcement action ...

for policies that require staff to keep sensitive information hidden from parents.”L.A.Unified already is entangled with the Trump administration in several disputes — all of which carry the threatened loss of the district’s federal funding, which surpasses $1.1 billion a year.A senior education department official, speaking on a not-for-attribution basis, explained some of the details.

The district’s “Gender Policy provisions require LAUSD employees to keep a student’s asserted ‘gender identity’ ‘private’ or confidential, including from parents, which likely violates [federal] protections for parents to inspect their children’s education records,” the official said.California Chino Valley Unified had sought reinstatement of a policy that notified parents of a chil...