Platkin Secures Major Win as Education Department Restores Previously Withheld Funding

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today responded to official confirmation that the U.S. Department of Education has released $158 million in previously withheld education funding to New Jersey. Attorney General Platkin joined a coalition in filing a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s abrupt and unlawful decision to freeze this funding earlier this month.

“From the beginning, we have made clear that the President’s attempt to freeze $158 million in critical education funding for New Jersey was illegal and deeply damaging to students, families, teachers, and schools. Now, under pressure from our lawsuit, the Administration has relented,” said Attorney General Platkin. “There is simply no excuse for the Trump Administration’s reckless attempt…