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Local school systems are waiting to see how much money they may lose from the Trump Administration’s surprise decision to freeze nearly $7 billion in federal education funds.
Last Monday, the Education Department sent an email to state school superintendents saying they would not be receiving the money -- which was approved by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in March -- on July 1 as expected.
Federal officials said the administration had decided to conduct a review of the programs being funded by the money, which had been baked into local school budgets.
The Wall Street Journal quoted a spokesman for the White House Office of Management and Budget as saying that “initial findings” from the review show grants had gone to “subsidize a radical left wing agenda.”
York County Schools Chief Financial Officer Bill Bowen …