The Department of Education is following through on a threat to withhold millions of dollars in funding from Fairfax County Public Schools because the school district allows students to use the restroom associated with their gender identity.

The Department of Education said it's cutting more than $3 million in grant money Fairfax County would have received for magnet schools.

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Fairfax County schools will lose $3.4 million in Magnet School Assistance Program funding in the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

Money from the grant program goes to the county's specialty magnet schools such as Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which is regularly named one of the top high schools in the country.

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