North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson on Monday announced that he’s joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration over frozen education funds.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson on Monday announced that he’s joined a lawsuit against the United States Education Department, seeking to immediately block it from freezing education funding that Congress had already approved and that schools were counting on for the coming school year.
The cuts, Jackson and State Schools Superintendent Mo Green said in a news conference, would leave schools scrambling and be “horrible for students.”
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