Trump administration moves to pull Maine K-12 funding as judge pauses USDA school lunch cuts

The Department of Education initiated the process to pull federal funding from the Maine Department of Education for failing to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972. The investigation has been referred to the Department of Justice for “further enforcement action.”

The move comes the same day a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from pulling funds used by Maine for school lunches and food for daycare programs after the Department of Agriculture pulled its funding earlier this month. The USDA also pulled funding for the University of Maine system in March.

“The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda over their

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