Presidency of Donald Trump, funding freeze
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The U.S. Department will release billions in delayed grants for adult education, English language learning, and after-school programs following a Trump-era funding freeze. WV school districts and national nonprofits like the YMCA warned of major program cuts without the money.
The Texas American Federation of Teachers, along with 13 other school districts, teachers' unions, and non-profit organizations, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Trump administration for blocking billions of dollars in federal education funding.
The initial funding freeze left Kentucky shorted $96 million, but it is unclear how much of the released funding will go to Kentucky.
Hundreds of educators and staffers at after-school programs, adult education centers and other federally funded Michigan programs could be laid off.
New York State United Teachers this week signed onto a lawsuit seeking to force the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Office of Management and Budget to release $6 billion in education funding previously allocated by Congress for the upcoming school year.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson is visiting Gastonia Tuesday to tour the Dream Center Academy, highlighting the importance of federal education funding.
Broward County Council of PTA/PTSA say they are backing a federal lawsuit demanding the immediate release of about $6 billion in funding frozen by the U.S. Department of Education.
North Carolina is one of more than 20 states suing the Trumpadministration over a sudden freeze in federal education funding, money that supportsafter-school programs, teacher training and school safety initiatives across the state.