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Mississippi’s private and public schools could lose more than $137 million after the U.S. Department of Education decided to rescind remaining COVID-19 relief funds. The federal government awarded the funds amid the pandemic to help states and school districts address issues arising from the crisis, but until this month had said it would allow states an extension to finish using the money.

The decision has left Mississippi education leaders reeling and school administrators scrambling to figure out how to proceed, with some schools potentially left holding the bag for work that is in progress and that depended on the funds for payment.

“This is the equivalent of you going to a lender and them granting you a half million dollar builders loan (but) you get $300,000 into it and (they) say, ‘Oh yeah, we’re only gonna give you $300,000,” Mississippi State Superintendent Dr. Lance Evans, who is trying to get the decision reversed, said during the Mississippi Board of Education meeting on Thursday. “Literally, that’s what it equates to.”

Schools are now wondering if they need to make immediate changes as they await updates.
 

Thanks to Trump’s repeated executive order attacks on US clean energy policy, nearly $8 billion in investments and 16 new large-scale factories and other projects were cancelled, closed, or downsized in Q1 2025.


The $7.9 billion in investments withdrawn since January are more than three times the total investments cancelled over the previous 30 months, according to nonpartisan policy group E2’s latest Clean Economy Works monthly update.
 
“This is the equivalent of you going to a lender and them granting you a half million dollar builders loan (but) you get $300,000 into it and (they) say, ‘Oh yeah, we’re only gonna give you $300,000,” Mississippi State Superintendent Dr. Lance Evans, who is trying to get the decision reversed, said during the Mississippi Board of Education meeting on Thursday. “Literally, that’s what it equates to.”
It tickles me when people dumb enough to vote for Trump later try to explain stuff to the rest of us.
Yeah, we know. You don’t have to explain anything to us. We have been telling you this for a long time now.
 
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