July 26, 2025

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Education Department to Unfreeze $5 Billion in Grants

In a reversal of its June 30 freeze, the Education Department announced it will release more than $5 billion in grant funding to states in the coming weeks. This funding, part of a nearly $7 billion package approved by Congress, supports initiatives from teacher training and English-learner programs to migrant and adult education.

Key highlights:

The freeze was ordered pending an Office of Management and Budget review of alleged support for a “radical left-wing agenda.”

Lawsuits from 24 states, D.C., teaching unions, districts and parents pressed for a resolution.

Spokesperson Madi Biedermann confirmed payments will begin next week under new “guardrails” to align with administration policy.

Middle Schoolers Build and Keep PCs at MCCC Summer Camp

Montgomery County Community College’s Pottstown campus hosted PC Creation Station July 7–11, enabling 21 middle school students to build and keep their own computers through a $30,000 Justamere Foundation grant. Each morning, campers assembled a complete PC kit—including monitor, keyboard, mouse, tower with memory and gaming cards, Wi-Fi connector and Windows OS—and in the afternoons explored STEM enrichment activities.

Under the guidance of instructors Andy and Ryan Bachman, supported by MCCC student workers and ACLAMO assistants, participants honed tool-use and instruction-following skills. They left camp with fully functional PCs, heightened digital literacy and renewed enthusiasm for STEM learning.

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Florida Missed $2.2B in Medicaid Funds for School Services

Florida schools have forfeited roughly $200 million a year—totaling $2.2 billion since 2014—by failing to update their Medicaid reimbursement methods, advocates say. Despite a 2020 law broadening Medicaid coverage for school‐based mental health, physical and developmental services, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has stuck with a flat‐rate payment model instead of the federal cost‐based approach.

Districts from Hillsborough to Leon County report millions in missed revenue, hampering their ability to hire therapists, nurses and counselors at a time when student mental health needs are surging.

NC Budget Stalemate Delays Teacher Raises and School Funding

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers have yet to pass a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1, leaving teacher pay raises, state-employee increases and school funding in limbo. Deep divisions over personal income tax cuts—the Senate pressing for a rate of 3.45% vs. the House’s refusal—and conflicting plans on job cuts and pay hikes have prevented agreement.

Key sticking points include:

Senate and House split on personal income tax rates and projected revenue gaps

House plan would raise starting teacher pay to nearly $50,000 and deliver an 8.7% increase over two years; the Senate offers 2.3% raises plus bonuses

Disagreements over cuts to vacant positions, new children’s hospital funding and program oversight

With natural disasters, federal funding freezes and looming health-care and nutrition cuts altering the fiscal landscape, experts say lawmakers must overhaul their proposals before a final budget is enacted.

UNO Enrollment Slump Spurs Course Cuts, Adjunct Layoffs

University of New Orleans leaders announced this week that they will cut adjunct faculty positions and eliminate under-enrolled courses just weeks before the fall semester, after mid-July enrollment dipped to about 4,100 students—2,000 fewer than last year.

The move forces full-time professors to absorb additional teaching loads and raises the risk of last-minute cancellations and overcrowded classrooms. These measures come as lawmakers consider shifting UNO from the University of Louisiana system to the LSU system and administrators scramble to close a multimillion-dollar deficit in an $85.5 million budget now operating at 64% of projected headcount.

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Education Dept. Unfreezes $5B in Grants to States, Backing Teacher Training & EL Programs