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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. Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has unilaterally cut education funding and downsized the Education Department, kumon math & reading centers 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. 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. 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. 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.