Trump Loses Bid for Pause on Teacher Grant Funding Order

Federal grants for teacher training in underserved communities must continue to flow, after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to pause a judge’s temporary restraining order.

The letters announcing the termination of the grants are too vague, leaving grant recipients and judges to “guess at the theory underlying the agency’s action,” US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Judge William J. Kayatta, Jr. wrote.

The government said in legal briefs that “its actual reason for terminating the grants was each program’s use of those funds to teach DEI principles,” Kayatta said. “But that supposed specificity is nowhere to ...