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 leftwing agenda”.
