Education Department to Release Billions in Withheld Grant Money for Schools

The action is announced three days before the Trump administration’s response to a multi-state lawsuit was due in federal court.

The U.S. Department of Education building in Washington on July 21, 2007. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. Department of Education is expected to soon release to public schools billions of dollars in federal grants previously put on hold.

In an email response to The Epoch Times, Madi Biedermann, the Department of Education’s deputy assistant secretary for communications, said the Office of Management and Budget just completed a review of the 2025 public education allocations “and will begin dispersing funds to the states next week.”