Local education officials are weighing a challenge to the Trump administration for saying it will revoke New York City’s magnet school grants over its gender policies for bathroom use , as Mayor Adams and his chancellor appear to be at odds over the wedge issue.

In a letter, obtained by the Daily News, city Public Schools General Counsel Liz Vladeck asked the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office on Friday to “explain the nexus” between their interpretation of federal sex-based discrimination law and the Magnet Schools Assistance Program, or “MSAP.”

“The policies that you cite are not specific to the MSAP and your letter does not provide a basis for targeting MSAP grants,” Vladeck wrote. “Nor is it clear how OCR’s [Office for Civil Rights] interpretation of Title IX impacts

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