The Trump administration on Friday terminated $106 million in Okay-12 schooling grants for Massachusetts, the Healey administration mentioned Tuesday, calling it an “unlawful transfer.”
In a press launch, Gov. Maura Healey’s workplace mentioned the U.S. Division of Training notified all states at 5:03 p.m. Friday of its resolution, efficient at 5 p.m., to “finish the federal Training Stabilization Fund liquidation interval.”
Healey’s workplace mentioned the choice terminated greater than $2 billion in grants throughout 41 states, and asserted that in February, “the Trump Administration had simply reaffirmed that Massachusetts had till March 2026 to spend the funds.”
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In line with Healey’s workplace, the funds have been meant to deal with pandemic-related studying loss, assist constructing upgrades to deal with safety and enhance air high quality, and to assist skilled improvement for educators, together with serving to emergency trainer license holders keep employed in public faculties.
In a letter Friday to state schooling officers, U.S. Training Secretary Linda McMahon wrote that “extending deadlines for COVID-related grants, that are in reality taxpayer funds, years after the COVID pandemic ended is just not per the Division’s priorities and thus not a worthwhile train of its discretion.”
“After cautious evaluation, the Division is modifying the liquidation interval to finish on March 28, 2025,” McMahon wrote. “The Division has concluded that the additional extension of the liquidation interval for the aforementioned grants, already properly previous the interval of efficiency, was not justified. You and your subrecipients have had ample time to liquidate obligations.”
The Trump administration is anticipated to announce a brand new spherical of tariffs on imports coming into the U.S. on Wednesday, which it is dubbed “Liberation Day.” It is solely going to lift prices for individuals in Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey mentioned.
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The governor’s workplace included in its press launch statements from high Democrats within the Legislature.
“The Trump administration pretends to champion schooling by claiming it desires to empower states, however in actuality, it’s actively sabotaging states’ potential to assist our most susceptible college students,” Home Speaker Ronald Mariano mentioned. “Canceling funds that faculties have already constructed into their budgets is reckless, and exhibits a blatant disregard for the wants of our college students and faculties.”
Districts affected by the cuts primarily serve cities, and embrace Springfield ($47.3 million), New Bedford ($15.6 million), Fitchburg ($6.6 million), Everett ($4.9 million), and Revere ($4.6 million).
