{"id":225033,"date":"2025-07-06T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T02:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=225033"},"modified":"2025-07-06T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T02:47:13","slug":"federal-funding-freeze-what-it-means-for-georgia-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/family\/education\/federal-funding-freeze-what-it-means-for-georgia-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Funding Freeze: What It Means for Georgia Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Department of Education has frozen billions of dollars in school grants, impacting school districts and after-school programs in Georgia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 Funds for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, or CLCC grants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2025\/07\/02\/the-trump-admin-withholding-over-6-billion-in-education-grants-for-schools\">are being withheld by the federal government<\/a>, leaving some Georgia after-school and summer care programs in a state of confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statewide After-School Network Director Katie Landes said Georgia\u2019s CLCC grant allocation was over $40 million and serves 27,000 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>This funding in Georgia, around 60% of the grantees are school districts, and so this is often a primary source of funding for a school district. To operate after-school or summer programming is particularly as important in some of our more rural communities in Georgia,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The freeze in funding may or may not be permanent, Landes said, but it is causing confusion for grantees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For those sites who may not be able to operate the same way or at all if they don&#8217;t have access to funds,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This could be, it has the potential to be a big surprise for families and to really have some disastrous consequences for a family who are expecting a safe and enriching place for their child to go to after the school day ends while they are at work that they may not have access to.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education has frozen billions of dollars in school grants, impacting school districts and after-school programs in Georgia.&nbsp; 2025 Funds for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, or CLCC grants, are being withheld by the federal government, leaving some Georgia after-school and summer care programs in a state of confusion. Statewide After-School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":35535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"_newspack_byline_active":false,"_newspack_byline":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11783],"tags":[17366,18411,9573],"class_list":["post-225033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-federal-cuts","tag-federal-funding","tag-schools","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}