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struggle4progress

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Fri May 2, 2025, 12:56 PM 23 hrs ago

Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health

May 1, 202511:21 AM ET
Cory Turner

The Trump administration says it will stop paying out $1 billion in federal grants that school districts across the country have been using to hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

The U.S. Department of Education is telling impacted districts that the Biden administration, in awarding the grants, violated "the letter or purpose of Federal civil rights law."

The Trump administration says it will stop paying out $1 billion in federal grants that school districts across the country have been using to hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

The U.S. Department of Education is telling impacted districts that the Biden administration, in awarding the grants, violated "the letter or purpose of Federal civil rights law" ...

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382582/trump-school-mental-health

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Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health (Original Post) struggle4progress 23 hrs ago OP
Monsters! This describes every person hired by this administration and is a feature to them, not a flaw. lark 23 hrs ago #1

lark

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1. Monsters! This describes every person hired by this administration and is a feature to them, not a flaw.
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:03 PM
23 hrs ago

Vicious, hate filled, corrupt, lying profiteers and murderers of the American working class/poor is all they have, but it fits 100% with the person who hired them.
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