The US Department of Education failed to convinced a federal appeals court to block a lower court order requiring the agency to continue school mental health grant funding to sixteen states.
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a ruling Tuesday agreed with the lower court that the department’s across-the-board discontinuation notices to 138 grantees likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
The ruling, which came a day after the panel held oral arguments on the case, denied an emergency motion by the Trump administration to pause the lower court’s injunction while the full ...