Trump, education funding and Colorado school districts
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The Trump administration has accused states and schools of using federal education grants earmarked for immigrants’ children and low-income students to help fund “a radical leftwing agenda.” The administration this week withheld more than $6 billion ...
Washington state and Colorado say they have locked in four years of funding from a Biden-era program to build electric vehicle chargers along highways.
Unsurprisingly, Trump administration officials have struck a familiar, bombastic tone in communications about the funds. In a statement emailed to KPBS, an official from the Office of Management and Budget wrote that the freeze was a “programmatic review of education funding,” but that “initial findings show that many of these grant programs have been grossly misused to subsidize a ...
After-school programming providers across Northeast Ohio have been announcing closures and scaling back services that provide vital academic and childcare to thousands of low-income families, after the Trump administration froze some of their federal funding.