Governor Josh Shapiro sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday, joining a lawsuit filed by 23 other states and a district of Colombia, questioning the decision to stop over $ 6 billion in financing education.
At a stake in Pennsylvania, it costs $ 230 million for teacher training, school programs and support for English students – money allocated by Congress, which was to be available to schools until July 1.
“Once again, Trump’s administration is trying to take dollars involved in Pennsylvania – this time from our schools,” said Shapiro in a statement on Monday.
Although governors rarely submit court disputes instead of general prosecutors, the lawsuit is the last of the few brought by Shapiro against Trump’s administration by frozen or withdrawn federal financing, including schoolsSince the president began his second term in January.
Unlike most other positive states, Pennsylvania, Prosecutor General, Republican Dave Sunday is not part of the trial – or others that the governor submitted against Trump. Shapiro, a democrat and former prosecutor general, joined the official function of the governor, saying that he sued “forced Trump’s administration to provide the money that was promised and are necessary.”
New Jersey, in which $ 158 million for education joined the trial, also joined the trial. The Democratic Prosecutor General Matthew Platin has committed to fight “this unlawful and morally invalid attempt to undermine our best educational system.”
The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Rhode Island against the secretary of education Linda McMahon, management director and budget director Russell Vought and Trump.
He claims that the Trump administration has exceeded its authority in freezing financing, which the McMahon Department announced to the countries on June 30, the day before school access schools.
Many subsidy programs discussed are long -established. But the spokesman for the Management and Budget Bureau said in a statement last week that the programs were “grossly used by schools to subsidize the radical leftist program.”
Freezing is a “continuous program review and no decisions have yet been made,” said the spokesman.
Financing freezing “caused chaos” in the educational systems of countries, they gave you in the complaint, taking into account that schools were already budgeted on the basis of funds for the upcoming academic year.
In Pennsylvania, $ 70 million is suspended from schools titled II, which ensures financing for the recruitment of recent teachers and improving the skills and quality of teachers’ teaching.
Other main financing streams that have been frozen include $ 55 million according to Title IV for academic subsidies for enrichment, $ 54 million as part of title IV for programming after school – with money granted not only to schools, but to community suppliers – and $ 20 million in title III for lend a hand in English.
Financing contains repercussions for districts throughout the state, including Philadelphia, which said that it forecasted $ 33.4 million in title II, title III and title IV of money. In the entire region, districts from Upper Darby after Phoenixville have influenced.
The lawsuit asks the court to recognize the actions of the illegal Trump administration and order the release of money to the States.
