TASA Urges Texas Delegation to U.S. Congress to Release Paused Federal Grant Funds

On Monday, July 21, 2025, TASA sent this letter to the Texas delegation of the U.S. Congress. The letter urges the members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas to "act swiftly to urge the release" of more than $480 million in federal grant funding.

The letter is in response to the delay in disbursement of essential K-12 funding for several longstanding federal education programs. (See TEA's letter from early July on this matter.)

As noted in the letter, school districts and state agencies were told to expect these allocations on July 1. However, the day before that was to happen, the U.S. Department of Education announced that the planned disbursement would not occur.

The letter outlines the amounts of funding withheld for each program, a total of more than $480 million in funding for Texas schools (after a disbursement for before/after-school programs was made last Friday).

TASA members are strongly encouraged to contact their representatives in the U.S. House to urge them to send a unified message that communicates the importance of this funding to Texas schools and the urgent need for it to be disbursed as the U.S. Congress intended it to be.

Read the TASA letter.

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