Education Funding Freeze

On July 14, a coalition of 23 attorneys general and two governors filed a lawsuit in Rhode Island against the Trump Administration for its unconstitutional, unlawful, and arbitrary decision to freeze funding for six longstanding programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Without this funding, many educational programs will shutter – already, ongoing summer learning programs have been left unfunded. The attorneys general argue that the funding freeze violates the federal funding statutes and Appropriations Act, Apportionment, the Administrative Procedures Act, the separation of powers doctrine, equitable ultra vires, and the Presentment Clause, and ask the court for declaratory and injunctive relief.