Religious schools exempt from USDA's Title IX rules, can keep meal funding

Religious Schools That Don't Follow LGBT Mandate May Keep Federal Lunch Money, Biden Admin Says

Religious schools that don’t embrace the new federal guidelines on gender identity and sexual orientation may still receive federal meal funding, the Agriculture Department said. Under Title IX, schools that receive federal dollars to pay for meals through the Agriculture Department’s National School Lunch Program may not discriminate on the basis of sex. In May, however, the Department announced that it has adopted a new definition of the term …

Religious Schools Needn’t Follow Title IX Gender Guidance to Stay in Lunch Program

Food fight for religious schools resolved. Religious schools need not follow new Biden administration Title IX guidelines in order to receive federal funding for school lunch programs, according to new guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The announcement comes amid a major battle that somehow wraps up gender identity and cafeteria food.This food fight started when the USDA announced in May that it "will interpret the prohibi…

Victory: Christian Schools Exempted from 'Radical' Biden Rule on Title IX, School Lunches

In a major victory for religious liberty, the Biden administration on Friday agreed to automatically exempt religious schools from a new interpretation of Title IX that had threatened to halt funding for lunch programs if schools held to biblical standards on sexuality and marriage.

Biden administration exempts religious schools from LGBTQ mandate on lunch funding

Private religious schools won’t be required to comply with the Biden administration’s gender mandate to qualify for student-lunch funding under a newly released exemption.

Religious schools exempt from USDA's Title IX rules, can keep federal meal funding

Religious schools are not required to follow new Title IX rules on sexual orientation and gender identity in order to receive federal meal funding, the USDA said on Friday.

USDA says religious schools will be granted automatic Title IX exemption

Story at a glance Religious schools will continue to receive federal meal funding even if they do not adhere to new Title IX requirements, according to USDA guidance published Friday. USDA in May s…