(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of 14 other Democratic state attorneys general secured a temporary court order blocking the U.S. Department of Education from terminating two federal school mental health grant programs.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted the coalition's request for a temporary restraining order, preventing the Education Department from ending funding for the School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program and the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program.
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