"Driving the news: The Education Department announced Monday it would direct nearly $500 million to HBCUs and tribal colleges and universities. The one-time investment is a nearly 50% increase in funding for HBCUs while it more than doubles the amount tribal colleges received. Several HBCUs did not respond to Axios' requests for comment. Flashback: Trump has positioned himself as a champion for HBCUs. In his first term, he signed a bipartisan law that secured more than $250 million each year to HBCUs and minority-serving institutions,"
"Catch up quick: On Wednesday, the Department of Education announced it end funding for grant programs at colleges with large Hispanic populations, saying they "discriminate by conferring government benefits exclusively to institutions that meet racial or ethnic quotas." Instead, that money will now be "reprogrammed into programs that do not include discriminatory racial and ethnic quotas and that advance Administration priorities.""
The Education Department will direct nearly $500 million to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribal colleges and universities. The one-time investment raises HBCU funding by about 50% and more than doubles funding for tribal colleges. Several HBCUs did not respond to requests for comment. The move follows prior federal actions supporting HBCUs, including bipartisan funding measures and relief loan forgiveness. The department also ended certain grant programs for colleges with large Hispanic populations, characterizing those programs as discriminatory and saying funds will be reprogrammed into programs without racial or ethnic quotas.
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