The action is announced three days before the Trump administration’s response to a multi-state lawsuit was due in federal court.
The U.S. Department of Education is expected to release to public schools soon billions of dollars in federal grants previously put on hold.
In an email response to The Epoch Times, Madi Biedermann, the Department of Education’s deputy assistant secretary for communications, said the Office of Management and Budget just completed a review of the 2025 public education allocations “and will begin dispersing funds to the states next week.”
All told, the funding that states expected earlier this month totaled $6 billion. It covers Title III English language instruction, after-school care, summer programs, education for illegal immigrants, teacher training, and adult literacy.
The Department of Education announced last week that the money for summer and after-school programs, which total $1.3 billion, will be released.
The funding disbursement was delayed because the department wanted to ensure that the money could be spent in accordance with President Donald Trump’s “priorities, and the department’s statutory responsibilities,” according to a July 14 federal lawsuit filed by 24 states and the District of Columbia.
