Millions of dollars in federal funds could flow to Colorado schools after the Trump administration said Friday it would lift a funding freeze impacting grants to help educate kids with significant learning needs, and recruit and retain teachers.

That money is part of a pot of more than $5 billion in previously withheld funding the Trump administration will release weeks ahead of the new school year, a senior administration official told The Washington Post .

The federal government announced that it planned to withhold that money earlier this month, on the day school districts were expecting to receive the grants that had already been factored into their budgets. At the time, the U.S. Department of Education told state education departments that it was reviewing grant programs to make

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