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March 31, 2025
LANSING – State Superintendent Dr. Michael F. Rice and State Board of Education President Dr. Pamela Pugh are issuing statements on how recent action by the U.S. Department of Education to pull back federal funding will harm Michigan students and schools.
On Friday, March 28, just after 5 p.m., state education agencies across the country, including the Michigan Department of Education, received a communication from U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon to announce that the deadline for reimbursement requests for Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations and American Rescue Plan funds had been changed to the same date, Friday, March 28, at 5 p.m. Prior to the change, the deadline had been March 28, 2026, with districts across the country, including in Michigan, having been approved to submit delayed requests for late reimbursement of their pre-approved projects.
State Superintendent Dr. Michael F. Rice is releasing the following statement:
“Walking back a federal commitment to pandemic relief funds to improve the air quality, healthfulness, and safety of schools coming out of the pandemic is unacceptable. Michigan’s children stand to lose more than $40 million. Twenty-seven districts across the state have preapproved financial obligations that met criteria set by the U.S. Department of Education for extending the districts’ deadlines to request reimbursement of these funds. Instead, Secretary McMahon and the Trump Administration abruptly withdrew approval. These funds were approved to be spent on projects including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, boilers, and windows. The 27 districts entered contracts with the understanding that their preapproved projects would be reimbursed by the federal government. A change in administrations should not void previous commitments. Without the promised March 2026 date for federal reimbursement requests, districts may be forced to reduce instructional expenditures for students, diminish savings, or both to honor these contracts.
The U.S. secretary of education needs to rethink her March 28 communication. U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, and Michigan’s other members of Congress must insist that federal commitments to schools and districts that they represent be honored.”
State Board of Education President Dr. Pamela Pugh added the following: “As a public health professional for many years, it is a particular affront to me that the U.S. Department of Education would walk back its commitment to projects that protect the health and safety of our students—including for schools in communities such as Flint, Pontiac, and Benton Harbor that were hit especially hard by COVID-19. These federally funded projects are important to students and staff in our districts in Michigan and across the country. To cancel funding approval on no notice and to tell districts that they may apply for a second approval from the U.S. Department of Education to access these funds, with different criteria, has nothing to do with service to schoolchildren.”
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NOTE: A list of affected districts and dollar amounts is attached.
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