Trump administration cuts $1 billion in school mental health grants, citing conflict of priorities

WASHINGTON – The Trump medication is moving to cancel $1 cardinal successful schoolhouse intelligence wellness grants, saying they bespeak the priorities of the erstwhile administration.

Grant recipients were notified Tuesday that the backing volition not beryllium continued aft this year. A gun unit bill signed by Democratic President Joe Biden successful 2022 sent $1 cardinal to the assistance programs to assistance schools prosecute much psychologists, counselors and different intelligence wellness workers.

A caller announcement said an Education Department reappraisal of the programs recovered they violated the intent of civilian rights law, conflicted with the department’s argumentation of prioritizing merit and fairness, and amounted to an inappropriate usage of national money.

The cuts were made nationalist successful a societal media station from blimpish strategist Christopher Rufo, who claimed the wealth was utilized to beforehand “left-wing racialism and discrimination.” He posted excerpts from respective assistance documents mounting goals to prosecute definite numbers of nonwhite counselors oregon prosecute different diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

“No much slush money for activists nether the guise of intelligence health,” Rufo wrote.

The Education Department confirmed the cuts. In an update to members of Congress that was obtained by The Associated Press, section officials said the Republican medication volition find different ways to enactment mental health.

“The Department plans to re-envision and re-compete its intelligence wellness programme funds to much efficaciously enactment students’ behavioral wellness needs,” according to the notice.

President Donald Trump's medication has chopped billions of dollars successful national grants deemed to beryllium related to DEI and has threatened to chopped billions much from schools and colleges implicit diverseness practices. The medication says immoderate argumentation that treats radical otherwise due to the fact that of their contention amounts to discrimination, and it argues that DEI has often been utilized to discriminate against achromatic and Asian American students.

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