Some education grants in limbo were used for ‘leftwing agenda,’ Trump administration says
- The Trump administration announced a $6.8 billion educational funding freeze as part of an ongoing review, stating that there have been misuses in grant programs.
- California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond criticized the funding freeze as illegal and stated that the funds were approved by Congress.
- Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, expressed concern that withholding funding will harm vulnerable community members.
- The Office of Management and Budget stated that initial findings showed many grant programs have subsidized a 'radical leftwing agenda.
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Trump staff just froze $6 billion in education grants, now claim some were used for ‘radical leftwing agenda’
Programs for English learners and migrant children are among those affected, leaving schools scrambling to adjust. Advocates say the majority of children in English language programs were born in the United States.
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After the first grant termination rolled into Professor Cheri Levinson’s inbox, her university told her it wasn’t worth taking the time to appeal the decision; the odds of success were too low. Ultimately, she had three National Institutes of Health grants terminated that were meant to support trainees from diverse backgrounds in her lab studying eating disorders at the University of Louisville. But her state’s Republican attorney general didn’…
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