Platkin Sues Trump Administration for Unlawfully Freezing Billions of Dollars in Education Grants

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today joined a coalition of 24 states in suing the Trump Administration over its unconstitutional, unlawful, and arbitrary decision to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding for states, including $158 million for New Jersey, for six longstanding programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Depriving states of this critical funding will cause many educational programs to shutter, and have already caused harm to ongoing summer learning programs that have been left unfunded because of the freeze.

In the lawsuit, the attorneys general argue that the funding freeze violates the federal funding statutes and regulations authorizing these critical programs and appropriating funds for them;…