Answers about Education

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has unilaterally cut education funding and downsized the Education Department, leading to numerous legal challenges. The Trump administration also cut teacher-training programs that helped rural schools combat educator shortages and has threatened to withhold funding from schools with diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On March 28, Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to school officials saying she had moved the deadline up - to that very day.

She said the department would consider releasing some funds, but only on a project-by-project basis. Indicating the true purpose of education is not drilling, or teaching a lot of useless facts (which one can find on the Internet anyway), nor submission to established societal values, but leading out that which already is within. An educator, then, is a person who helps one achieve the fullness of one's potential without trying to impose his own viewpoints.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Education Department to undo a freeze on the last of the U.S. relief money given to schools to help students recover academically from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Associated Press´ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP´s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.

Nearly all that money had been spent, but some school districts received deadline extensions that gave them additional time to use it. Districts spent it on things like after-school tutoring, summer school, social workers, college counselors, library books and renovations to make school buildings safer.