Summer is when superintendents and principals finalize staffing and allocate resources for the year ahead.

Instead, they’ve spent the past month scrambling to revise budgets and delay decisions after the Trump administration recklessly froze more than $6.8 billion in federal education funds approved by Congress four months ago — a move that unnecessarily threw school planning into chaos with the school year starting in just a few weeks.

On June 30, the Education Department abruptly informed states it would not release key fiscal year 2025 education funds as scheduled, affecting programs like teacher training, English learner support and after-school services.

After bipartisan backlash — including lawsuits from 24 states and pressure from Republican senators — the administration reversed

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