Trump administration to restore $6.8bn in education funds after multi-state suit

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Source: The Guardian

Mon 25 Aug 2025 20.52 EDT
Last modified on Tue 26 Aug 2025 04.07 EDT


After a multi-state lawsuit over Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to freeze more than $6.8bn in education funding to US schools, the Trump administration has agreed to restore the funds for a range of educational services, including after school and summer learning, teacher training, and support for English-learners.

The administration did not give a clear explanation as to why it had withheld the congressionally-allocated funds, though a spokesperson for the White House Office of Management and Budget had indicated that review found instances of federal education money being “grossly misused to subsidize a radical left-wing agenda”.

Following a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of California and 22 other states, as well as the governors of two states, the administration released some funding. On Monday, California attorney general Rob Bonta announced that the states secured an agreement to have the funding fully restored.

“The Trump administration upended school programs across the country when it recklessly withheld vital education funding just weeks before the school year was set to begin,” Bonta said. “Fortunately, after we filed our lawsuit, the Trump Administration backed down and released the funding it had previously withheld … Our kids deserve so much better than what this anti-education administration has to offer, and we will continue to fight to protect them from this president’s relentless attacks.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/25/trump-administration-education-funding

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Link to CA AG Bonta PRESS RELEASE - Attorney General Bonta Secures Full Relief for California Schools in Lawsuit Challenging Withholding of Education Funding

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143489034
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143501872

Last month, the administration had indicated they would restore funding but apparently only trickled out some.

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. Bah, let me know if they actually do that.

Because they have not, so far.

(A pittance does not constitute an 'unfreezing'.)