Who Will Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Hold on $6.8 Billion in School Funds?
In The News Piece in Education Week
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July 7, 2025
New America’s Zahava Stadler and Jordan Abbott are mentioned in an Education Week piece by Mark Lieberman discussing the ways that the Trump Administration’s illegal hold on education funding impacts state systems.
School districts, state leaders, and education experts continue to sound the alarm that the Trump administration’s hold on $6.8 billion in federal funds Congress already allocated for education will disproportionately harm students from low-income families, students with disabilities, and English learners.
The Trump administration notified states last week that seven federal education programs are currently under “ongoing programmatic review” despite a July 1 disbursement date enshrined in federal law.
The federal government distributes money for those programs using formulas that prioritize school districts with high concentrations of poverty.
Read more here.
Want to understand how Trump’s funding freeze impacts your local schools? This interactive tool from Education Week uses the same dataset to reveal how much of the $6.8 billion in withheld federal education funds your district stands to lose.