Trump freezes CT education funds: Which districts are affected?

Department Of Education Takes Back Billions In Funds Recently Promised To State School Systems

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty ImagesSecretary of Education Linda McMahon informed states last Friday that money many had been counting on for the coming year was — after a whiplash back and forth — no longer on the table. Shortly after wide scale shutdowns in mid-March of 2020, Congress established the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, which provided state-level grants to provide schools with emergency relief funds to…

Trump freezes CT education funds: Which districts are affected?

Last year, school districts across the country applied for extensions to spend the last remaining dollars of federal COVID-19 relief funding by March 2026 instead of its original deadline of January 2025. Connecticut’s last $14 million was earmarked mostly for programs within the state Department of Education. Just over $6 million of the funds were granted to roughly two dozen K-12 school districts, to be used by the 2026 deadline. New London an…

U.S. Department of Education pulls $34 million in COVID-era funding from Kentucky schools

The U.S. Department of Education pulled out of an agreement to give Kentucky school districts more time to spend COVID relief funds. Some districts say the sudden halt jeopardizes long-term projects.