Education administrators in the public school system, properly derided as "educrats," must go the way of the woolly mammoth. Come to think of it, the same holds true for the entire U.S. education system. Starting from scratch would produce something better than what now exists. For instance, according to Axios,...

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it had reached an unprecedented settlement with the University of Pennsylvania over transgender-identifying males competing against females in women’s sports.  The federal Department of Education was able to get the university to agree to restore female athletes to all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or other recognitions that were taken by those males who had competed in the female categories.  Furthermore, the university agreed to issue a public statement to its community explaining that it henceforth will not allow males into Penn Athletics’ female private facilities or allow males to compete in its female athletic programs. “Let me be clear, putting men in women’s intimate spaces is not safe, nor is it reasonable. Putting men up against women in physical competition against women is not fair. America knows it’s not fair. This is a 90-10 issue,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said. The university has also agreed to adopt biology-based definitions of male and female according to Title IX that will be outlined in the statement, and to rescind statements and guidances that do not align with Title IX. The statement will be prominently displayed on its main website and on each of the websites it maintains for women’s athletics.  The university’s moves are in keeping with the guidelines President Donald Trump set out in two orders called “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” and “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism.” Finally, the university has agreed to send a personalized apology letter to each of the female swimmers—most notably, Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan—who suffered because of its now-abandoned policies.  “We said, you owe Paula, Riley, and the other female athletes you wronged a formal written apology on Penn letterhead, and do it in 10 business days,” the federal education chief said. “I stood fully undressed in a locker room full of college age women at the NCAA women’s swimming national championships, and a man from University of Pennsylvania walked in, took off his women’s swimsuit. [He] was fully undressed, fully intact, and fully exposing himself inches away from where me and dozens of other women were also simultaneously fully undressed,” Gaines said, explaining the emotional harm Penn’s policies had caused her and other women.  “But for months before that day, as highlighted by Paula, young women at the University of Pennsylvania were required to endure this man using their locker room 18 times every single week and being told that they had no right to say anything about it, that this man, he wanted to be in the women’s locker room, in the pool because he said he was a woman, they were going to let him, and that was more important than what the women wanted, than their mental health, than their well being, than what they had worked their entire lives for competing at that level,” she added. “Today is a great victory for women and girls, not only at the University of Pennsylvania, but all across our nation. The Department commends UPenn for rectifying its past harms against women and girls, and we will continue to fight relentlessly to restore Title IX’s proper application and enforce it to the fullest extent of the law,” McMahon said in a statement.  “We said, ‘You have to completely rewrite your institutional policy. They signed on the dotted line,” McMahon said. At the announcement, which took place in the ornate Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, prominent advocates of female athletics attributed the change by UPenn to the advocacy of the Trump administration. The education secretary herself said the decision was another example of the Trump effect.  “Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, UPenn has agreed both to apologize for its past Title IX violations and to ensure that women’s sports are protected at the University for future generations of female athletes,” McMahon said. This article has been updated since publication. The post UPenn Settlement With Trump Admin Over Trans Athletes Seen as Big Win for Women’s Sports appeared first on The Daily Signal.