Trump admin. terminated $106 million in Mass. Ok-12 training grants – NBC Boston

The Trump administration on Friday terminated $106 million in Ok-12 training 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 Schooling notified all states at 5:03 p.m. Friday of its choice, efficient at 5 p.m., to “finish the federal Schooling 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 keeping with Healey’s workplace, the funds had been meant to deal with pandemic-related studying loss, help constructing upgrades to deal with safety and enhance air high quality, and to help skilled growth for educators, together with serving to emergency trainer license holders keep employed in public colleges.

In a letter Friday to state training officers, U.S. Schooling Secretary Linda McMahon wrote that “extending deadlines for COVID-related grants, that are the truth is taxpayer funds, years after the COVID pandemic ended isn’t in line with the Division’s priorities and thus not a worthwhile train of its discretion.”

“After cautious overview, 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 nicely 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 boost 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 training by claiming it desires to empower states, however in actuality, it’s actively sabotaging states’ capability to help our most susceptible college students,” Home Speaker Ronald Mariano mentioned. “Canceling funds that colleges have already constructed into their budgets is reckless, and reveals a blatant disregard for the wants of our college students and colleges.”

Districts affected by the cuts primarily serve cities, and embody Springfield ($47.3 million), New Bedford ($15.6 million), Fitchburg ($6.6 million), Everett ($4.9 million), and Revere ($4.6 million).