On March 28, Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to school officials saying she had moved the deadline up – to that very day. She said the department would consider releasing some funds, but only on a project-by-project basis. The other victims in Laos were 57-year-old American James Huston, two 19-year-old Australian women Holly Morton-Bowles and Bianca Jones and Danish friends Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, and Freja Sorensen, kids tutoring center 21. Nearly all that money had been spent, but some school districts received deadline extensions that gave them additional time to use it.

Districts spent it on things like after-school tutoring, summer school, social workers, college counselors, library books and renovations to make school buildings safer. WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Education Department to undo a freeze on the last of the U.S. relief money given to schools to help students recover academically from the COVID-19 pandemic. Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has unilaterally cut education funding and downsized the Education Department, leading to numerous legal challenges.

The Trump administration also cut teacher-training programs that helped rural schools combat educator shortages and has threatened to withhold funding from schools with diversity, equity and kindergarten sight words inclusion programs. The Associated Press´ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP´s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.