Greater Nashua

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new federal lawsuit in Maryland is challenging a Trump administration memo giving the nation's schools and universities two weeks to eliminate "race-based" practices of any kind or risk losing their federal money. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the American Federation of Teachers union and the American Sociological Association, says the Education Department's Feb. 14 memo violates the First and Fifth Amendments. Forcing schools to teach only the views supported by the federal government amounts to a violation of free speech, the organizations say, and the directive is so vague that schools don't know what practices cross the line. "This letter radically upends and re-writes otherwise well-established jurisprudence," the lawsuit said. "No federal law prevents teaching about race and race-related topics, and the Supreme Court has not banned efforts to advance ...