Last night, the federal Office of Management and Budget issued a memo to the heads of departments, freezing federal grants and loans. The memo is a mess of a word salad, but the operational piece is here:
Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders
Read coverage from Washington Post, The Hill, and Roll Call.
I am posting quickly this morning to urge you to get in touch with your Congressional representatives as quickly as possible.
And if you are reading this and are in a state that went for Trump, this is even more urgent for you, as such states disproportionately are dependent on federal funds.
ALSO, universal free lunch programs, like those in Massachusetts, use FEDERAL funds, even if they are supplemented by state funds to provide lunches everywhere.
School districts draw down federal funds from DESE periodically; this freeze doesn't mean, for example, that we won't be able to feed kids tomorrow.
UPDATE (noon): you can read this from AASA on what the federal freeze may (?) mean; this is the best thing I have seen so far.
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