Governors and attorneys from 24 states and Washington, D.C., sued in federal court in Providence, Rhode Island, arguing that the Department of Education and the Office of Management and Budget threw K-12 schools nationwide into a panic by unconstitutionally freezing funds.
In the newly passed One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, six educational programs previously approved by Congress had their federal funding cut. These programs are the education of migrant farm workers and their children, recruitment and training of teachers, English proficiency learning, academic enrichment, after-school and summer programs, and adult literacy and job-readiness skills.
According to the lawsuit, the government was legally required to release the funding to states on July 1. However, the Education Department notified states a day before that it would not
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