Desperation crept into Sylvia’s voice as she rattled off all the ways her life would become more difficult if a free learning program that her son attends during the summer shuts its doors. A single mother,

A funding freeze of over $6 billion is impacting education grants nationwide and has caused concern for the upcoming school year.Ten Republican senators sent a

Colorado has joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education to prevent the freezing of federal education funds vital for diverse and underserved students.

"Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of the General Counsel (OGC) opened a foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan (UM) after a review of the university's foreign reports revealed inaccurate and incomplete disclosures," the DOE said in a news release.

"It's going to reduce the number of teachers, it's going to reduce the ability for us to make evidence-based changes.”

Colorado has joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education over a freeze in essential education funding.

Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) and nine other Senate Republicans have signed a letter asking the Office of Management and Budget to release Department of Education funds to states, which are currently being withheld for review.

The U.S. Department of Education has emerged as central in the struggle over control of the power of the purse in the nation’s capital.