Overview
- U.S. District Judge Kymberly Evanson issued a preliminary injunction halting the Education Department’s April move to cut short multiyear school-based mental health awards.
- Relief applies to roughly four dozen grantees in 15 of the 16 plaintiff states that filed declarations of harm, leaving other recipients outside the order.
- The injunction also bars the department from reallocating the affected funds through its reworked September grant competition while the case proceeds.
- The department says it will appeal, after the court found the discontinuation notices lacked individualized reasoning required under the Administrative Procedure Act.
- The grants—expanded by Congress after the Uvalde shooting—fund counselors, psychologists, social workers, and training programs, and states report service disruptions without the money, with examples including restored millions in California and about $8 million in Wisconsin.