South Florida public schools expect ‘significant’ impact after feds funding freeze

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Miami-Dade School Board subordinate estimates $45 cardinal chopped

Alejandra Rodriguez, 9, of Key Largo, Fla., stands astatine the Department of Education, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (Jacquelyn Martin, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

MIAMI – Public schools and nonprofits were preparing for the consequences of the President Donald Trump administration’s determination to withhold more than $6 cardinal from six national assistance programs.

The Education Department announced connected Monday that the grants, which Congress appropriated, were not going to beryllium disbursed connected Tuesday since the programs these enactment were nether review.

Steve Gallon, the Miami-Dade County School Board subordinate who represents District 1 and has a doctorate successful acquisition medication and supervision, said this volition interaction much-needed programs.

“We don’t recognize what nether reappraisal means, but we person anticipated the narrative, but we could not person anticipated a $45 cardinal haircut successful July,” Gallon said astir Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

The grants successful limbo money programs specified arsenic teachers’ development, summertime and after-school services, world enrichment, English, acquisition for children of migrant workers; and big literacy.

“When you are talking astir students who are English connection learners, those students are successful astir each school,” Gallon said.

Antonio White, the president of United Teachers of Dade, besides released a connection Wednesday saying working-class Americans basal to endure “devastating” consequences.

“School districts are canceling programs that person been palmy successful recruiting and retaining high-quality educators,” White wrote.

John J. Sullivan, the main of unit and communications astatine Broward County Public Schools, besides released a connection connected Wednesday saying the frost “will person important implications.”

It’s unclear however galore jobs astatine M-DCPS and BCPS are astatine hazard due to the fact that of the deficiency of funding.

“We are analyzing the afloat grade of this interaction and volition proceed moving intimately with our national lawmakers to reconstruct these funds arsenic rapidly arsenic possible,” Sullivan wrote astir the interaction connected BCPS programs.

Linda E. McMahon, the U.S. caput of education, has been dismantling the precise section she leads aft President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid directing her to adjacent the bureau “to the maximum grade appropriate.”

The Education Department cannot beryllium closed without legislature approval.