Ashe county, North Carolina, and thousands of other school districts are scrambling after a freeze on nearly $7bn
In the time it took to read an email, the federal money vanished before Eisa Cox’s eyes: dollars that supported the Ashe county, North Carolina, school district’s after-school program, training for its teachers and salaries for some jobs.
The email from the US Department of Education arrived 30 June, one day before the money – $1.1m in total – was set to materialize for the rural western district. Instead, the dollars were frozen pending a review to make sure the money was spent “in accordance with the President’s priorities”, the email said.
