After a multi-state lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to freeze more than $6.8 billion in education funding to U.S. schools, the Trump administration has agreed to restore the funds for a range of educational services, including after-school and summer learning, teacher training and support for English-learners.
The administration did not give a clear explanation as to why it had withheld the congressionally allocated funds, though a spokesperson for the White House office of management and budget had indicated that review found instances of federal education money being “grossly misused to subsidize a radical leftwing agenda”.
Following a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of California and 22 other states, as well as the governors of two states, the administration released some funding. On Monday, California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, announced that the states secured an agreement to have the funding fully restored.
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