Education Department releases $5 billion to schools
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Desperation crept into Sylvia’s voice as she rattled off all the ways her life would become more difficult if a free learning program that her son attends during the summer shuts its doors.
The announcement to state education agencies marks an abrupt and dramatic reversal from the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to withhold, with less than one day’s notice, all funds from seven longstanding grant programs Congress voted in March to fund for the upcoming school year.
Congress allocates federal grants to the states, which distribute that money to eligible school districts. The funding freeze includes $667 million that was allocated for Texas. All but $9 million of that is intended to go to school districts.