In just six months, the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress have brought lasting changeand enormous unpredictabilityto federal education policy.
The U.S. Department of Education, under Secretary Linda McMahon, has cut roughly half its staff. It is also withholding nearly $7 billion in grant funding to school districtsfor before- and after-school programs, teacher training, services for English language learners and morewhile that funding undergoes further review.
A teacher gives a tour of Nora Sterry Elementary School to students in Los Angeles in January. California is one of 24 states suing the Trump administration over frozen education grant funding.
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