In just six months, the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress have brought lasting change—and enormous unpredictability—to 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 districts—for before- and after-school programs, teacher training, services for English language learners and more—while 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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