During the first year of the Trump administration, educators across the country faced a sweeping wave of federal grant cuts, cancellations, and disruptions that scrambled budgets and plans for hundreds of in-progress initiatives.
The second Trump administration signaled in its early days that it planned to radically reshape the landscape of federal grants by unilaterally cracking down on programs perceived to be promoting “gender ideology,” “radical indoctrination,” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.”
Many of the subsequent efforts—part of the Trump administration’s disruption of more than $12 billion in education during its first year—have been challenged in court, and some have been deemed illegal by judges and watchdogs. The result has been upheaval across many sectors, including in K-12 school districts and higher education institutions. Programs shut down, staff lost their jobs, plans changed, and uncertainty became the norm.
Over the past year, Education Week has kept tabs on grant changes affecting education by consulting a wide range of sources, including publicly available federal databases; spreadsheets and trackers maintained by advocacy organizations; and interviews with dozens of grant recipients and program advocates.
For more than 30 Education Department programs, we’ve documented more than 730 in-progress grants, collectively worth more than $2 billion, that were discontinued or terminated. Where possible, we’ve noted the instances in which the Trump administration has reallocated the money it clawed back.
We’ve also identified close to 100 grant programs from other federal agencies where cuts and cancellations affected K-12 initiatives.
Here’s what we’ve found, listed below by federal agency and individual grant program within each agency. Use the blue buttons to navigate between agencies. Click on individual program names for more information.
Note: This list only includes programs that were affected when the Trump administration bypassed Congress. We didn’t include funding cuts affecting education that resulted from federal legislation, such as the elimination of the SNAP-Ed Connection program for nutritional education.
We also didn’t include instances when agencies canceled competitions that would have led to future awards affecting schools, such as for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program.
These lists are not exhaustive. Because there is no central listing of all terminated grants, the actual number of affected grants is almost certainly higher.
The federal government reinstated hundreds of canceled grants in September, following a federal judge’s ruling in June that the cuts were illegal.
Past coverage: Tutoring, After-School, and Other Student Services at Risk as Trump Cuts AmeriCorps
- Local Food for Schools and Child Care Cooperative Agreement
- Patrick Leahy Farm to School
- Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom
Example: The agency terminated a $50,000 grant that Texas Tech University had planned to spend on a program to increase the number of underrepresented K-12 educators certified to teach family and consumer sciences, a university spokesperson told Education Week.
Past coverage: No More Fresh Fruits and Veggies: Schools Grapple With Loss of Federal Funding
- Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET)
- Marine Sanctuary Program
- NOAA Mission-Related Education Awards
- State Digital Equity Planning and Capacity Grant
Example: States collectively lost hundreds of millions of dollars in May 2025 when the Trump administration announced it would immediately terminate all grants from initiatives under the Digital Equity Act, which Congress approved in 2021. Indiana’s plan for the funds included offering digital skills courses to high schoolers and expanding access to technology for students with disabilities. Two lawsuits challenging the termination of the program were ongoing as of January 2026.
Past coverage: Digital Equity Grants Landed on Trump’s Chopping Block. Here’s Why the K-12 Market is Watching
- Basic and Applied Scientific Research
- National Defense Education Program
- Promoting K-12 Student Achievement At Military-Connected Schools
- Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (Stem) Education, Outreach And Workforce Program
Example: The Bellevue school district in Nebraska last spring lost $500,000 in Department of Defense funding. The district had already spent $1.5 million from the Promoting K-12 Student Achievement grant on “physical fitness supplies, equipment, climbing walls, and outdoor fitness circuits,” and had planned to spend the remaining $500,000 on “community engagement activities, teacher training, sub-teacher support for grant activities, grant evaluation costs, and administrative expenses to execute the grant,” said Amanda Oliver, the district’s spokesperson.
Example: The Pittsburgh school district lost $15 million it had planned to spend on upgrading 20 school buildings.
The Government Accountability Office, an independent federal watchdog, issued a decision in July finding that the department’s efforts to defund this program violated federal impoundment law.
- Administration for Children and Families
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- National Institutes of Health
Example: The city of Nashville, Tenn., had to lay off three employees from its mobile health unit after the CDC abruptly terminated its $4.3 million grant 15 months before it was due to expire, according to a legal filing. The funding cancellation forced the unit to scale back plans for offering vaccines to children outside the public school system and address health-related barriers to students enrolling in public schools.
Note: The Trump administration canceled hundreds of Project AWARE grants on Jan. 13 and then rescinded all the cancellation notices a day later.
- Citizenship Education And Training
- Federal Emergency Management Administration
- Local Cyber Security Grant
- State Homeland Security Program Grant
- Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention
Example: The Franklin school district in New Hampshire had to cancel planned safety training sessions after the Department of Homeland Security canceled a violence prevention grant it had awarded the school district in September 2024, according to a letter from New Hampshire’s congressional delegation urging the agency to restore the grant.
- Community and Schools Youth Drug Prevention Program (Affected initiatives include a nationwide effort to reduce gang violence)
- Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative
- Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence
- Research and Evaluation on School Safety
- STOP School Violence
Example: The Newark Community Street Team in New Jersey laid off 15 workers last year after losing two federal violence prevention grants, including a STOP School Violence grant designed to help support student mental health and identify at-risk children at an alternative charter high school for students who previously dropped out of school, according to media reports.
National Park Service
Example: The College of New Jersey lost access to a federal grant covering a project archiving the history of one of the nation’s oldest teacher-training colleges.
- Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program
- Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program
- Environmental Justice Government to Government Program
- Financial Assistance For Community Support Activities To Address Environmental Justice Issues
- People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition
- Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program
- Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Training and Special Purpose Activities Relating to Environmental Justice
Example: Among the affected recipients of EPA grants terminated by the Trump administration is the Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance, which had secured $1.8 million through the Community Change program to help educators implement a new environmental justice curriculum in participants’ home districts. Federal lawsuits challenging EPA cuts were ongoing as of January 2026.
- IMLS Grants to States
- Inspire! Grants for Small Museums
- Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
- Museum Grants for African American History and Culture
- Museums for America
- National Leadership Grants
- Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services
The Trump administration reinstated all the canceled IMLS grants in December after a federal judge and a federal watchdog both said the cuts violated federal law.
Past coverage: How Schools Will Feel the Federal Funding Cuts to Libraries and Museums
Example: Omaha Public Schools had to cancel planned in-school dance lessons after the local nonprofit WhyArts lost a grant originally worth $15,000.
- Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants
- Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access
- Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership
- Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends
- Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities
- Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development
- Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs
- Promotion of the Humanities: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development
A judge ruled in August that the Trump administration’s arts endowment cuts were likely illegal.
Past coverage: What National Endowment for the Humanities Cuts Could Mean for Social Studies Teachers
- Advancing Informal STEM Learning
- Computer Science for All (CSforAll: Research and RPPs)
- Discovery Research K-12
- EDU Core Research
- EDU Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research
- Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants
- Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
- Institutes for K-12 Educators
- Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
- STEM K-12
Past coverage: Trump Administration Slashes STEM Education Research Grants
