{"id":7776,"date":"2025-03-28T23:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/feds-investigating-maine-over-student-gender-transition-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:20:40","slug":"feds-investigating-maine-over-student-gender-transition-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/feds-investigating-maine-over-student-gender-transition-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds investigating Maine over student gender transition claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Education is investigating Maine over reported concerns that school districts are using privacy laws to keep information about students away from their parents, alleging the state&#8217;s Department of Education is violating the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA).&nbsp; The federal department is taking issue with district policies that allegedly allow schools to&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/education\/5220330-trump-mcmahon-maine-mills-student-gender-transition\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Education is investigating Maine over reported concerns that school districts are using privacy laws to keep information about students away from their parents, alleging the state&#8217;s Department of Education is violating the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA).&nbsp; The federal department is taking issue with district policies that allegedly allow schools to&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}