Trump, California and frozen funds
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The funds have already been allocated by Congress and budgeted by school districts for the upcoming school year.
If California’s legal challenge can’t stop the Trump administration from withholding funds, the Education Department said over 100 employees could be affected.
California colleges since 1995 have received more than $600 million in federal grants through the Hispanic Serving Institutions program. A lawsuit challenging the program could put the future of that funding in peril.
The lawsuit was deemed a class-action petition representing about 300 non-classroom-based charter schools across California that enrolled about 200,000 students, said Lee Rosenberg, attorney for ...