SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - The State Attorney General has secured funding for Massachusetts schools currently being withheld by the trump administration.

Last month Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s “unconstitutional, unlawful, and arbitrary” decision to freeze $6.8 billion in funding just weeks before the school year was set to begin.

Here in the Baystate, that freeze impacted more than $107 million in critical educational funding.

Monday, the Trump administration promised to make that funding available by October 1.

Attorney General Campbell released a statement following the decision Monday evening which read in part: “Though this money should have never been withheld in the first place, I am glad that as a result of this s

See Full Page