In a win for New Jersey, the state has retained $1 billion in approved federal funding for K-12 public schools that the Trump administration said it would withhold if states did not comply with its demand that schools certify that their "DEI practices" are lawful.
The settlement by the attorneys general of New Jersey and 18 other states "will prevent the federal government from unlawfully withholding over $1 billion in critical federal funding to state and local education agencies in New Jersey," Jennifer Davenport, the state's acting attorney general, said in a statement on Monday, Feb. 9.
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