“It’s catastrophic,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance, a group that works to expand after-school services for #students. She estimated that the federal dollars for after-school & summer-school programs — about $1.3 billion annually — support 1.4 million students, mostly lower income, representing about 20% of all students in after-school programs nationally.

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The move is likely to be challenged in #court & has already been criticized [correctly characterized] as #illegal by #Democrats & #teachers#unions, who emphasized that the money had been appropriated by #Congress & was approved by #Trump in March as part of a broader #funding bill.

“This is lawless,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

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