The Trump administration has canceled $1 billion in grants that support mental-health services in K-12 schools. The funding had passed in Congress with bipartisan support after the deadly 2022 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
A spokesperson for the Department of Education said that the grants “conflict with [the priorities] of the current administration” — which tells us that even the bare minimum support for kids to prevent mass shootings is now “controversial,” we suppose.
Republicans consistently blame school shootings on mental health, not guns. Yet the Trump administration just canceled $1 billion in grants for student mental health www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u…
— David Lazarus (@davidlaz.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T22:41:19.983Z
Effects of the cutoff of federal funding for mental-health services at K-12 schools are rippling through systems across the country — with one official describing the potential impact on the services her system provides to students as “a gut punch.”