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The Trump administration is canceling millions of dollars in magnet school grant funding after New York City officials missed a Tuesday deadline to overhaul their policies regarding transgender students.

At stake is $36 million that city officials expected to flow to several schools over the next three fiscal years, beginning on Oct. 1, through the U.S. Department of Education’s Magnet School Assistance Program. Funding for school distr

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