Trump Administration
Brooklyn’s El Puente lost vital federal grants, jeopardizing its youth advocacy program. These cuts threaten environmental justice and community programs across the city.
Nicolle Orozco Forero had a special gift for working with children with disabilities, an area of severe need nationwide.
Among the states suing are New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Colorado, and California.
After-school providers are relieved to get some $1.3 billion in overdue funds, but they’ve already experienced enormous disruptions.
The Trump administration says the changes affecting Climate.gov are about ‘restoring gold standard science.’ But science educators worry about losing the free classroom resources it has provided.
The American Civil Liberties Union is representing several State Head Start associations and parent groups in the lawsuit.
Derlis Snaider Chusin Toaquiza was completing his junior year at Grover Cleveland High School in Queens when ICE agents detained him last month.
The Trump administration cut a prestigious national award for STEM teachers, prompting a campaign to save it.
In a dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the decision ‘indefensible.’ Education Secretary Linda McMahon has said the job cuts are a first step toward eliminating the department, although a legal challenge to the layoffs can continue in the lower courts.
A federal district court judge ordered the restoration of some AmeriCorps staff and funding on July 7. But the group’s work could still be significantly disrupted for some time due to the Trump administration’s attempts to cut its spending.
The withheld funds pay for after-school programming, teacher training, and support for English learners. Trump administration officials said the funds are under review due to suspicion they have been ‘grossly misused to subsidize a radical leftwing agenda.’
SNAP-Ed, which funds nutrition programs across New York City, will expire Sept. 30. Without it, families may have less fresh produce — and advocates worry about increased child hunger.
This major policy change treats Head Start as a welfare program rather than an educational one.
Teachers and school district leaders spoke with Gov. Jared Polis about the impact of the withheld federal education funding.
While the administration has said it is reviewing programs related to immigration and other issues, Tennessee schools previously primarily used the funds for teacher training and after-school programming.
The legislation includes big Medicaid cuts, a new voucher-like school choice program, stricter limits on food aid that has implications for free school meals, and more money for immigration enforcement.
Colorado hasn’t received about $70 million in federal education funds after the Trump administration refused to release billions in K-12 dollars.
Michigan’s State Superintendent Michael Rice said the withholding of the federal funding would hurt some of the state’s most vulnerable children.
Federal officials say California must delete mentions of gender identity and trans people from federally funded sex ed materials that reach about 13,000 students, or else lose $6 million.
The Trump administration is withholding nearly $7 billion for education that has been approved by Congress and was supposed to go out starting July 1.