#education-grants

#education-grants

Bay Area universities lost more than $2 million in funds after the Trump administration announced it was rerouting money meant for minority-serving institutions to charter schools and other educational programs, an analysis by Bay Area News Group has revealed. In September, the Department of Education announced it was ending $350 million in discretionary funding for several minority-serving grant programs, alleging the programs were "racially discriminatory" because qualifying schools must maintain a percentage of minority students in their total student enrollment.

The U.S. Education Department is releasing more than $5 billion in education grant funding to states, which had been previously approved but withheld by the Trump administration.

The Trump administration notified states that it was withholding over $6 billion in previously approved federal education grants to schools, impacting school districts' plans for the fall.