Washington – Friday, the Supreme Court ruled for the Trump administration and raised the order of a judge who had blocked the cancellation of $ 148 million in subsidies for the recruitment and training of new teachers in California and millions others on a national level.
By a vote of 5-4, the judges granted the call of the administration and freezes the funding for the moment.
Chief judge John G. Roberts Jr. said he would have denied the appeal and the three Liberals of the court – judges Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson – filed a written dissent.
“In my opinion, nothing in this case required our immediate intervention,” wrote Kagan.
The majority did not explain his decision. In a brief unsigned order, he declared that the complainants had not “refuted the representation of the government that it is unlikely that it was covered the grant funds once they are spent”.
Lawyers from the Trump administration had urged the court to curb the judges who acted as “self -proclaimed managers” of the federal government.
In early February, people appointed by Trump in the Department of Education examined the pending subsidies aimed at ending the financing of “discriminatory practices, including in the form of Dei” or diversity, equity and inclusion.
They decided to end 104 of the 109 teacher training subsidies worth around $ 600 million nationally. They did it thanks to forms of forms that said that subsidies “no longer accept … The priorities of the agency”.
Directed by California Atty. General Rob Bonta, eight United States, the United States has brought an action in Boston and argued that the congress had approved subsidies and that their sudden cancellation was not “authorized by law”. The prosecution has targeted around $ 250 million in canceled subsidies, and among these, around $ 148 million went to California.
Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin and Colorado. No state led by the Republicans brought an action.
Bonta’s trial was based on the law on administrative procedure, which prohibits agencies from suddenly modifying their regulatory policies without clear and reasonable explanation.
The American district judge MYONG JOUN, a named Biden, agreed that the decision of the education department suddenly terminating the subsidies was “arbitrary and capricious” and illegal under the law on administrative procedure. He said that “there was no individualized analysis of any of the programs” which was interrupted.
On March 10, he made a temporary ban order to maintain the status quo.
When a federal court of appeal refused to remove this order, lawyers for the Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court.
“This court should put an end to the unconstitutional reign of the courts of federal district as self -proclaimed managers of the executive branch funds and decisions to disburse subsidies,” wrote Sarah Harris, an acting general solicitor, in his appeal to the United States Department of Education compared to the State of California.
The Bonta trial said that California State University and the University of California have lost eight subsidies valued at around $ 56 million. The objective of federal subsidies was to recruit and train teachers to work in “hard -working” schools in rural or urban areas.
Among the programs canceled, there was a subsidy of $ 7.5 million in Cal State to train and certify 276 teachers over five years old to work in peak -cutting schools or high pauses in the school districts of Los Angeles Unified and Pasadena Unified.
Other cancellations included a program of 8 million dollars at the UCLA to train at least 314 college directors as well as professors of mathematics, English, science and social sciences to serve in several school districts of the County of Los Angeles.
In a press release, California Teachers Assn. President David Goldberg criticized the Supreme Court decision.
“At a time when we are faced with shortages of current staff in our public schools, we should devote more resources to recruitment and retention of educators, without keeping critical resources hostage to push political agendas,” said Goldberg.
The staff writer Daniel Miller contributed to this story.
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