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Federal Funding Disruptions for Schools Are Far From Over Signs are piling up that schools could experience more funding turbulence in the coming months.

New: More federal funding disruptions like the ones that roiled schools all 2025 appear to be on the horizon.
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The Trump Admin. Says It Supports Career-Tech. Ed. It Canceled CTE Grants Anyway Nineteen projects—many in rural areas—lost funding that was helping students prepare for college and careers.

Probably missed but the administration cancelled grants for Career Technical Education. These are programs to train students to be nurses, engineers, electricians, plumbers, software developers, dentists and so many other skills.

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The Trump Admin. Says It Supports Career-Tech. Ed. It Canceled CTE Grants Anyway Nineteen projects—many in rural areas—lost funding that was helping students prepare for college and careers.

The Trump administration has touted efforts to prepare K-12 students for the workforce.

But last summer, the Education Department canceled 19 ongoing grants for school-based projects doing just that.

Scoop from me and @laurainegl.bsky.social: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

The Trump Admin. Says It Supports Career-Tech. Ed. It Canceled CTE Grants Anyway Nineteen projects—many in rural areas—lost funding that was helping students prepare for college and careers.

The Trump administration has touted efforts to prepare K-12 students for the workforce.

But last summer, the Education Department canceled 19 ongoing grants for school-based projects doing just that.

Scoop from me and @laurainegl.bsky.social: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

How to Shred the Department of Education Republicans have been trying to dissolve the Department of Education since it was created. Under Trump, this is how they are dismantling the federal agency, step by step

Donald Trump is dismantling the Education Department piece by piece. Since taking office they've laid off 40% of its staff and moved billions in grant programs to other agencies.

We dug into the numbers and the impact of the White House's plan: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Trump Slashed Billions for Education in 2025. See Our List of Affected Grants We've tabulated the grant programs that have had awards terminated over the past year. See our list.

Just two hours until I share some behind-the-scenes insight from my reporting on federal education grants.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Webinar: How Many and Which Education Grants Has the Federal Government Cut? A New Tool Has the Answers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation ... Cuts to funding for education programs have left school districts and communities across the U.S. uncertain. Thankfully, Mark Lieberman, a school finance reporter for Education Week, has released a li...

Thursday: Come watch me talk about my efforts to track discontinued and canceled federal grants for K-12 education, courtesy of @innovateedunyc.bsky.social: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Congress Has Passed an Education Budget. See How Key Programs Are Affected Federal funding for low-income students and special education will remain level year over year.

New: After 15 months of speculation over how a Republican-controlled Congress under Trump would handle education funding, we have the answer: Virtually no changes.

-Level $$ for Title I, IDEA, Head Start
-No new block grants
-No programs or agencies eliminated
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The Washington-Baltimore News Guild strongly condemns the layoffs announced today at The Washington Post. These cuts represent yet another blow to a newsroom that has already been pushed to its limits and a disservice to the readers who rely on The Post for rigorous, independent journalism.

Education Week Union overwhelmingly ratifies first collective bargaining agreement - Washington-Baltimore News Guild The unionized 50-member staff of Education Week, a national nonprofit news organization, voted overwhelmingly in December to ratify its first collective bargaining agreement with management, joining a...

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Congress Has Passed an Education Budget. See How Key Programs Are Affected Federal funding for low-income students and special education will remain level year over year.

Congress Has Passed an Education Budget. See How Key Programs Are Affected: Federal funding for low-income students and special education will remain level year over year.

Trump Slashed Billions for Education in 2025. See Our List of Affected Grants We've tabulated the grant programs that have had awards terminated over the past year. See our list.

Federal grant cuts/cancellations/terminations at the following agencies in the last year have affected K-12 schools:
-AmeriCorps
-Ag.
-Commerce
-Defense
-Energy
-Education
-HHS
-DHS
-DOJ
-Interior
-EPA
-IMLS
-NEA
-NEH
-NSF
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Trump Slashed Billions for Education in 2025. See Our List of Affected Grants We've tabulated the grant programs that have had awards terminated over the past year. See our list.

New: The Trump administration during its first year pulled back K-12/higher ed funding for more than 730 Department of Education grants, and hundreds more from other agencies.

We pulled together a list: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Could Another Federal Shutdown Affect Education? What We Know After federal agents shot a Minneapolis man on Saturday, Democrats are now pulling support for a spending bill due by Friday.

Could Another Federal Shutdown Affect Education? What We Know: After federal agents shot a Minneapolis man on Saturday, Democrats are now pulling support for a spending bill due by Friday.

#SaveThePost, Jeff Bezos.

Rebuking Trump, Congress Moves to Maintain Most Federal Education Funding Funding for key programs like Title I and IDEA are on track to remain level year over year.

New: Congress is on the verge of (largely) rebuking President Trump's budget proposal for education.

No major funding cuts, no block grants...but also no explicit block on ED efforts to shift program staff elsewhere. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

In Trump's First Year, at Least $12 Billion in School Funding Disruptions The administration's cuts to schools came through the Education Department and other agencies.

President Trump took office one year ago today.

Since then, his administration has disrupted at least $12 billion in federal funding for education (and likely much more).

I did my best to tabulate the damage for @edweek.org: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

In Trump's First Year, at Least $12 Billion in School Funding Disruptions The administration's cuts to schools came through the Education Department and other agencies.

But Department of Education funds aren't the only ones worth examining.

Cuts or changes to at least 67 federal grant programs from 14 agencies outside the Ed. Dept. affected K-12 schools in the last year. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

In Trump's First Year, at Least $12 Billion in School Funding Disruptions The administration's cuts to schools came through the Education Department and other agencies.

The U.S. Department of Education alone moved to cancel, discontinue, or terminate more than 730 grants (!) across 30 separate K-12 and higher education programs.

Those grants were collectively worth at least $2.2 billion. Only a small fraction have been reinstated. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

In Trump's First Year, at Least $12 Billion in School Funding Disruptions The administration's cuts to schools came through the Education Department and other agencies.

President Trump took office one year ago today.

Since then, his administration has disrupted at least $12 billion in federal funding for education (and likely much more).

I did my best to tabulate the damage for @edweek.org: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material

🚨PRESS FREEDOM ALERT: The NewsGuild-CWA strongly condemns the FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home and the seizure of her electronic devices by federal agents.

More to come.

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'A Gut Punch’: What Trump’s New $168 Million Cut Means for Community Schools School districts in 11 states will imminently lose federal funds that help them cover staff salaries.

And just a couple weeks ago, school districts across Idaho started to contemplate a future without community schools coordinators who help students and families connect to social services. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Ed. Dept. Cuts Grants That Were Helping College Students Become Teachers Ten universities collectively lost more than $20 million for efforts to diversify the teacher workforce.

Undergraduate students at an HBCU in Texas were among dozens of aspiring teachers who now might have to abandon their career aspirations because the Education Department slashed grants that were covering their tuition. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Trump Bypasses Congress and Slashes Hundreds of Education Grants More than 200 ongoing projects have seen their remaining grant funding canceled in recent weeks.

Abrupt cuts to previously awarded federal grants mean thousands of students at a California charter middle and high school will no longer have access to tutors and resources for applying to college. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Trump Funding Cuts Hit Particularly Hard for Deaf and Blind Children Programs supporting students with rare, complex disabilities have lost millions of federal dollars.

Teachers and advocates who serve children with both visual and hearing impairments abruptly lost federal funding this fall, increasing the risk that some of the nation's most vulnerable students with disabilities will miss education opportunities all children deserve. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

One Casualty of Trump's $6.8 Billion Funding Freeze: Schools' Trust in the Feds Some district leaders are now wary of relying on federal funding—even when Congress has already approved it.

School districts canceled plans to fill open positions and scaled back planned initiatives this summer after the Trump administration withheld nearly $7 billion in K-12 formula funding, then released the money weeks late after Republican senators pushed back. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Dozens of Head Start Programs Still Aren't Receiving Promised Federal Funds Some providers of pre-K and child care have waited more than a week for federal reimbursements that typically arrive in 24 hours.

Numerous Head Start programs had to temporarily shut down this year because federal funding they rely on to pay their staff came late.

These programs serve children ages 0-5, largely from low-income families, many in rural areas. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

I spent much of this year reporting on the chaos and disruption that resulted from policy changes and funding cuts the Trump administration implemented.

Here's a quick roundup 🧵of some of the students and educators affected:

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'A Gut Punch’: What Trump’s New $168 Million Cut Means for Community Schools School districts in 11 states will imminently lose federal funds that help them cover staff salaries.

An Idaho nonprofit with an active $50 million grant told the U.S. Department of Education it had proactively scrubbed DEI from its application.

The department acknowledged the message--but canceled the grant anyway.

Now dozens of K-12 educators may lose their jobs. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...