By Christian Silvia

Tiverton and Little Compton could see cuts of more than $133,000 in federal education funds after the presidential administration recently froze $6.8 billion in congressionally approved funds earmarked for school districts nationwide.

Those funds were passed by Congress in March and were due to be dispersed at the beginning of July, but local leaders learned about them on June 30. Rhode Island has since joined a coalition of 23 states that has since filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an effort to restore funding, and deriding the federal freeze as unconstitutional and unlawful.

Rhode Island could lose up to $30 million.

Tiverton

Tiverton school superintendent Chris Haskins said potential cuts could cost the town $108,273 in funding for the upcoming

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