Jan Resseger writes here about the decision by the Trump administration to release the billions of dollars to public schools that it had not distributed. Districts were unable to plan their budgets because of the uncertainty. Apparently enough Republicans heard from unhappy constituents and communicated their displeasure to Secretary McMahon. It shows that when parents and educators speak loudly, they are heard. Even in this anti-public school administration.

Jan Resseger wrote about it-

Today’s post is an update.  Yesterday this blog traced what has happened since the Trump administration refused to send $6.8 billion to U.S. public schools, money that had, in March, been approved by Congress in a continuing budget resolution and promised for delivery on July 1, the day that school districts regularly receive federal funding prior to the beginning of a new school year.

This afternoon, July 25, the Trump administration announced that it will release $5 billion of the funds and begin delivering them next week. Last week the administration released $1.4 billion of the funds for 21st Century Community Learning Center after-school programs.

This blog will take a one week break.  Look for a new post on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.

This afternoon Chalkbeat reported: “The Trump administration will release billions in frozen education funds after widespread outcry, including from Republican members of Congress….”

Education Week‘s Mark Lieberman reports: “Roughly $5 billion will flow beginning the week of July 28 to states through four K-12 education grant programs…. The affected grant programs… are… for migrant education… professional development and teacher training… English-learner services… and academic enrichment…. News that the education funding freeze is ending first emerged July 25 at noon in a post on X from Rep. Don Bacon, R.-Neb., one of a small handful of Congressional Republicans who publicly urged the Trump administration to release the money.”

On July 1, the Trump administration also withheld federal funding for adult basic education.  Lieberman reports: “The notice to states didn’t mention the $715 million for adult education the Trump administration has also withheld since July 1. Information about that program typically flows to states separately from information about other education funding streams.”

Certainly the release of the funds is a blessing for school districts whose leaders had been frantically scrambling to figure out how to provide necessary and in some cases legally required services for students when public schools open for the fall semester, which begins in many school districts in the last couple of weeks of August.