The Trump administration has canceled millions of dollars to provide more mental health services to Wake County and North Carolina rural schools, as well as other schools in the country.
The US Ministry of Education told WRAL news that some applicants in the WRAL news listed the diversity goals for recruitment and diversity education for applications, so that the subsidies for K-12 and universities in the country did not continue. Wake County Public School System’s application is not clear what the administration opposes, and it’s not clear if the other subsidies in North Carolina have been canceled.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will not receive almost $ 1 million for a program to train more mental health professionals to work in rural schools in 2026 and 2027.
“The department conducted a subsidy review and decided that the granted subsidies provided funds for the previous administration’s priority and policy preference and the program that reflects the current administration’s policy preference,” he said on April 29. Signed by the chief adviser, Murray Bessette, said that this school district’s program violates or collides with one of four federal policies or laws, but he did not mention which one.
A US Department of Education spokesman MADI BIEDERMANN said in a statement on WRAL, “We are eager to the US families to support the evidence -based practices that the taxpayer dollar focuses on improving the mental health of students.”
The school can maintain this year’s funds, except for “ambiguous funds,” but the subsidies will not be updated in the last few years.
Wake County Public School System has received $ 14.1 million, and the leaders have hired 24 mental health experts and three employees for five years to respond to crisis to work in some schools. The school district received $ 2.3 million in the first year. Until now, public officials have laid the foundation for the program and have begun to hire the next year. The Earth’s school -based mental health program would have been expanded, and this school -based mental health program is 106 of the 9 schools on Earth.
The school district is investigating the options, and the letter to the earth states that the earth can decide to reconsider.
“Wake County Public School System is doing its best to support all students’ welfare and success.” “We are continuously looking for innovative and research support solutions to provide services to the school community, but the recent development has influenced the ability to proceed with such initiatives.”
In April 2024, as the Earth prepared for subsidies, the district officials pointed out that the BIDEN administration recommended that the applicants made a plan to recruit or maintain qualified experts in various backgrounds. In a simple summary of Wake’s program on the US Ministry of Education, the department lists Wake’s goals for Wake’s “Various Candidates” and the school system will promise to prioritize the federal subsidy program to increase the number of students who reflect the students served by the school or to increase the number of providers of the community.
On the department website, UNC-Chapel Hill’s program summary does not mention diversity. According to the summary, the program said, “We hoped to reduce and alleviate the inequality of mental health and economic imbalances for low -income families and rural students.”
The university spokesman said in the WRAL news that the subsidies program will fund the funds by December 31, 2025, according to the Communication of the Federal Education Ministry. The university still evaluates how to respond to the presentation.
For many years, North Carolina and later schools have been expanding their students’ approach to mental health services, showing that data has increased depression, anxiety and suicide among young people.
About 100 days ago, since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the administration has tried to remove diversity, equity and inclusive initiatives, claiming that civil servants are different. The administration has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars as teacher training subsidies earlier this year due to the diversity initiative of some subsidies.
Many state education and school leaders argued that diversity, equity, and included programs comply with the Federal Civil Rights Law. Many schools have been trying to diversify their workforce for a long time, which is an unbalanced white with a wide margin.
Since 2022, millions of dollars have been passed by the state and national school system and university in the federal subsidy program, signing the law by former President Joe Biden.
The bill provided $ 1 billion and was divided into two existing subsidies. One of the subsidies focused on hiring more qualified mental health employees in school, and the other focused on educating mental health service providers to work in school.
On Thursday, this department said he is canceling $ 1 billion in WRAL news. Some of the $ 1 billion of the bills were already spent, and the department also told WRAL that the subsidies were stopped if the prime minister did not advance the administrative priority. In addition, the Grant Program is pre -community than both parties, and it is not clear how much funds they have received separately from the law.
From 2022 Hiring subsidies Wake, Guilford, Surry and Iredell-Iredell-STATESVILLE SYSTEMS and the Ministry of Public Education, North Carolina have funded. Educational subsidy Cumberland County Schools, DPI and North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill’s North Carolina University and the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.
The university subsidies helped the school trained the supplier so that the school could work at Johnston, Halifax and Alamance-Burlington School Systems as well as rural schools.
