Trump administration punishes Pa. schools by withholding promised federal funding

Trump administration punishes Pa. schools by withholding promised federal funding

A parked school bus. (Photo by Phillippe Gerber/Getty Images)Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to eliminate the positions of 1,300 U.S. Department of Education employees in its push to dismantle public education as we know it in this country. Along with personnel cuts that will reduce the agency by half,  nearly $7 billion already allocated by Congress for K-12 education nationwide slated for release on …